Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: charset question for
From:    Andy Alt
Date:    Thu Jul 09, 2026 08:30

Subject: Re: charset question for Immortal Barons
Subject: Re: charset question for Immortal Barons

-=> Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-

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

Thanks! That pretty much confirms things. Regarding sbbs, has there ever been a

discussion about configuring a door to use the charset the user has enabled (or

what's been auto-detected) in their settings?

On a loosely related topic, I've been working on modemu2k, and for testing, I
use it with minicom. On Vertrauen (and other boards), cp437 is auto-detected,
but I get odd characters (mostly '?'s) at some of the ANSI screens. When I
tried minicom's '-R CP437' option, the characters were correct, but some of the

block chars weren't positioned properly (at the main menu, for example), and
the promptappeared in the lower-right corner of the menu, buried in the
border. Other sbbs boards I've tried recently have an option where I can
manually change to UTF-8, and that always gives me the correct output when
using minicom. On Vert, I've changed to US-ASCII (I didn't see a utf-8 option).

I've used syncterm (telnet/ssh client) a little and so far never have to change

any settings on vert or in syncterm for proper operation.

--
-Andy
Website: https://andy5995.github.io


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