This gopher hole uses UTF-8
Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:47:13 +0100
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One of the  big differences between the American  origins of Gopher
and gopher holes in the rest of the world is that ascii is far  too
limited for languages other than simplified English.

UCS Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8)

UTF-8 compenses this lack, and I use it in this gopher hole. One of
the adantaged of UTF-8 is a plethora of symbols and icons.
For colour emojiis I use  the noto  emoji font.

https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji

Arch and derivatives:
pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji

Debian:
apt install fonts-noto-color-emoji

Nerdfonts are also often packaged for your distribution.
https://www.nerdfonts.com/

I've also found that it works best in terminal emulators such as
Kitty, Wezterm, Ghostty. 
It works well in gui clients like Lagrange too.


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