Subj : Re: Making UTF-8 ANSIs
To   : apam
From : Adept
Date : Wed Jun 24 2020 02:49:31

 ap> UTF-8 would give extra characters, not colours. Colours are done via
 ap> ANSI codes, to get more colours have a look at
 ap> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#8-bit

Ah, okay, so it's still ANSI, it's just not 16-color ANSI, and I conflated it
with UTF-8 because it was only on Linux systems that the more-colors ANSIs
worked.

Thanks for that clarification.

 ap> terminals like konsole and gnome terminal do, so you could technically
 ap> use more colours with CP437 with your current BBS (or with UTF-8), just
 ap> it wouldn't look very good in most BBS terminals.

I suppose that's about as I'd expect. I guess I was hoping that it'd look
decent using Mystic and a linux terminal of some sort. At least locally on my
server.

But that still doesn't solve the aspect that it'd be rather a pain to _edit_
any of those graphics.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Storm BBS (21:2/108)

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