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    From esc@21:4/173 to apam on Thursday, October 06, 2022 17:32:08
    Hi apam! I have a question for you, kind of a strange one I suppose.

    I've been configuring my BBS in a way to be a sort of front end for textmode/console games. I have successfully gotten a number of old roguelikes and things to work...more or less. :)

    One thing that feels "missing" in this case is support for nonstandard (i.e., non-cp437) character sets. If I manually telnet into my BBS from my linux terminal emulator with full xterm-256color and unicode capability, and set my BBS to use UFT8 (vs cp437), these games look perfect.

    So boiling it all down here - is there a way, you think, that MagiTerm could support all the full character encoding of a full modern terminal emulator, so that we could support games and things?

    Thanks!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From apam@21:1/182 to esc on Friday, October 07, 2022 13:40:00
    So boiling it all down here - is there a way, you think, that MagiTerm
    could support all the full character encoding of a full modern
    terminal emulator, so that we could support games and things?

    Do you mean support CP437 and UTF-8 simultainiously? If so, I don't think that's possible - there would be no way to tell what is utf-8 data and
    what is not.

    I think depending on what terminal you prefer, the best way would be to
    either use a utf8 terminal as you have been, or convert your games to
    cp437 via some sort of conversion utility. I imagine your nethack or
    whatever just output to stdio, then pipe it through a converter - (I
    believe there is one called cp437)

    I suppose there could be some kind of hotkey to switch between utf-8 and
    cp437 in magiterm, there's just no way of detecting without knowing
    exactly what the data is.

    Andrew


    --- Talisman v0.43-dev (Windows/x64)
    * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to apam on Thursday, October 06, 2022 23:43:28
    I suppose there could be some kind of hotkey to switch between utf-8 and cp437 in magiterm, there's just no way of detecting without knowing exactly what the data is.

    I think this is the ideal solution - give magiterm the ability to switch and then leave it up to the BBS for implementing details like "if you see some character here, press 1 for cp437, if you see this other thing, press 2 for utf8". But yeah, opening up utf8/utf16 would really increase the available charactersets for making doorgames and stuff as well.

    Thanks for your reply btw! I also installed Talisman today for the first time to experiment with. Cheers.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/07/11 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From apam@21:1/182 to esc on Friday, October 07, 2022 17:18:18
    Thanks for your reply btw! I also installed Talisman today for the
    first time to experiment with. Cheers.

    You're welcome, I'm not sure when I would be able to look at UTF-8 etc, I imagine it would be quiet a thing to do.

    Have fun with Talisman :)

    Andrew


    --- Talisman v0.43-dev (Windows/x64)
    * Origin: Smuggler's Cove - Private BBS (21:1/182)