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JDD's Gemini Page

Here is a bad ASCII art portrait of my cat.

                 
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You should check out yeti's gemini page instead of mine. It's awesome!

Gemini Clients and Unicode

Some comments about how well an assortment of gemini clients handle yeti's pages (see above for link) which do pretty interesting things with unicode.

Elpher. Seems to work the best. Of course it helps to have some familiarity with/liking for emacs. Definitely impressed with how well everything displays, Unicode-wise. The overall aesthetic is clunky (in the best possible sense), as one would expect from an emacs mode.

Bombadillo. Also works, with the right terminal, but harder to read than elpher. Works in mate-terminal, not in rxvt (at least, the way I've got it configured)

Lagrange. Really nice UI. Very modern, if you like that kind of thing. Many of yeti's weird Unicode fonts don't display at all though. Lagrange displays a message that you need to install more fonts, but doesn't indicate which ones or how. (I'm running it on Ubuntu 20.04; possibly the font handling would be different on Windows or MacOS.) This is the most polished looking Gemini browser I tested, although Elaho comes a close second.

Kristall. More of a classic browser UI than Lagrange, but less featureful. Displays more of yeti's work than Lagrange does, but bombs out on the third-last page.

Elaho. Very nice mobile gemini client. Works pretty well on yeti's pages but not perfectly.

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To a picture of a Teleray terminal in rough shape. Very small image (22K) as SDF's gemini server seems to balk on larger file sizes

To my home page on the web.

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