Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: charset question for
From:    Andy Alt
Date:    Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:51

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

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

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

 > Subject:charset question for Immortal Barons
 >
 > I'd appreciate it if anyone could provide me with definitive feedback about
 > the
 >
 > design.

 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)

I and Claude took care of the "implementation details" ;) Issue resolved.


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


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