I generally don't want to see things happen in gopherspace that would break older clients or make gopher more complicated, but in this case I'm all for UTF-8. ASCII seems to reflect a time when being able to connect so easily to linguistically diverse cultures was a new idea and gopher's origins at an English-speaking, Midwestern university. <br>
<br>I think making gopher less ethnocentric would be cool. It might even allow for some expansion in gopherspace.<br><br>