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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org

Mon Feb 15 04:49:44 GMT 2021

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You'd only need Ucode if you were writing a client; a server doesn't haveto display anything. And Unicode only grows by adding new characters:existing ones never get removed and most of their properties don't changeeither, so keeping up actually isn't that hard.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 9:15 PM Katarina Eriksson <gmym at coopdot.com> wrote:

Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 07:48:53AM +0000,

Jonathan Lane <jon at dorsal.tk> wrote

a message of 38 lines which said:

Personally, I can't wait for some crazy bastard to write a Gemini

server in Motorola 68000 assembly for the Amiga.

TLS will certainly create interesting challenges. (Unicode, too.)

AmiSSL[1] has full compatibility with the latest OpenSSL, requires 68020

or higher and AmigaOS 3 or higher. The crypto itself would still take a

long time.

There also exist a unicode library called Ucode[2]. But since I discovered

it when writing this email, I don't know if it's usable for such a project.

Keeping up with the new Unicode versions is a project of itself.

While on the Amiga programming topic, I've been spending one or two hours

every Saturday evening (just a few weeks in a row) teaching myself Amiga E.

Inspired by Amiga E's 32 bit chars and AmiSSL for Amiga E[3], I've started

to write a gemtext parser (ASCII only at first, then Latin1 characters in

UTF-8) in the hope I can add enough features to eventually call it a gemini

client.

I wouldn't attempt doing it in M68k assembly, though.

[1] http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/AmiSSL-4.7

[2] http://aminet.net/package/text/show/Ucode

[3] http://aminet.net/package/dev/e/AmiSSL_in_E

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Katarina . o O (we might have strayed a bit from the topic)

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