Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: charset question for Immo
From:    Digital Man
Date:    Thu Jul 09, 2026 01:12

Subject: charset question for Immortal Barons
  Re: charset question for Immortal Barons
  By: Andy Alt to All on Wed Jul 08 2026 08:45 pm

 > Subject: charset question for Immortal Barons
 >
 > I saw there was a lively AI/vibe-coding discussion on Dove-Net. :) I'm
 > vibe-coding a clone of Barren Realms Elite, and hit a snag, and looking for
 > human feedback regarding this charset issue:
 >
 > https://github.com/andy5995/immortal-barons/issues/18
 >
 > Excerpt:
 > >A sysop who tested the Win32 snapshot door on a BBS reported that the
 > >"output appears to be UTF-8 instead of CP-437." On a CP437 terminal, that
 > >means the box-drawing and block characters render as garbage (mojibake).
 >
 > >The observation is correct. Immortal Barons emits UTF-8 on the wire, and
 > there >is no output-side character-set layer.
 >
 > I've been testing locally in my terminal (on Manjaro Linux in XFCE
 > terminal), and set up a Mystic BBS locally, telnetted in and opened it as a
 > door, with no trouble.
 >
 > I'd appreciate it if anyone could provide me with definitive feedback about
 > the
 >
 > design.

Traditional BBS terminals (including even modern ones like SyncTERM, Netrunner, etc.) do not (yet) support UTF-8 - just CP437. And Synchronet assumes all doors, by default, output CP437. So you need to convert your output character set to CP437. It's not a "design" so much as an implementation detail.
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