Subj : CP437 display in door via stdout
To   : NuSkooler
From : Alpha
Date : Wed Jan 06 2021 08:27 am

 > Very niche question, but I'm working on my first door game -- using Go
 > (Golang) and utilizing stdin/stdout -- which makes it relatively easy
 > to
 > handle the comms part.
 > 
 > BUT I'm trying to display an ansi file (e.g. IBM cp437 encoding) and
 > it
 > displays the colors properly, but not the extended characters. 

Hey NuSkooler, thanks for your reply. I was using my dev BBS (enigma!)
when your message came in and didn't realize it was polling my fsxNet hub
-- that's why I can't quote it here :)

I experimented a bit with encoding/decoding--GO has a built-in module for
encoding/decoding for basically anything, including CP437--but still the
same result. ANSI displays perfect when running in console, but garbage
when displaying extended characters when run as a door over an existing
tcp connection. Escape sequences for color, cursor, clearing screen, etc.
all work, however. Odd.

I can't even directly print out glyphs to the screen when I print out the
escape sequence or the glyph itself... I have a test function for that.

I must be doing something GO-related wrong, I'll have to keep digging...
If anyone is into Go, I can share the github repo.

I'm rolling a little homage to the seminal Flash game "Don't Shit Your
Pants." I have the main input loop working and the sqlite database for
scores. That's it :)

Cheers,

Alpha

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