Subj : utf8 in Mystic BBS
To   : Heisenberg
From : Accession
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 09:48 am

Hey Heisenberg!

On Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:46:42 +0000, you wrote:

 > so i just got a doorgame working.. Tradewars 2002, but its not 
 > displaying ANSI graphics properly.

 > Im using SyncTerm, and when im in the BBS, the graphics/ANSI displays 
 > properly but as soon as i go into tradwars, the ANSI graphics look 
 > like garbage.. Ive checked, and Font is set to CP437 in Syncterm.

 > I connect with putty and change encoding to utf8 and it works 
 > perfectly.

 > Syncterm does not seem to have the option for utf8 so what do i do.. 
 > i dont like using putty.

You shouldn't need putty. Are you running this doorgame with dosemu/dosemu2 or some other kind of DOS emulator? If so, the setting would be in dosemu.conf as:

$_internal_char_set = "cp437"
$_external_char_set = "cp437"

I believe those settings are commented out on a new dosemu/dosemu2 install.

Regards,
Nick

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