Subj : Re: Doors on linux hosted BBSes
To   : esc
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Oct 30 2022 03:14 pm

  Re: Re: Doors on linux hosted BBSes
  By: esc to Digital Man on Thu Oct 27 2022 01:28 am

 >  DM>   Re: Re: Doors on linux hosted BBSes
 >
 > Hey Rob, /very/ different topic but this thread was what spurred my memory
 > into reaching out to you.
 >
 > I have a number of roguelikes on my BBS computer. I would really like to
 > serve those up as games on the BBS. A number of these work relatively well
 > out of the box or with a handful of changes to function in cp437 with
 > standard dos colors. However, a number of these games use true unicode and
 > the xterm-256color palette.

I think the latest SyncTERM already supports the xterm-256color palette.
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/raw/master/src/conio/cterm.txt

If by "unicode" you're refering to UTF-8 support in SyncTERM, yeah, that's on Deuce's todo list.

 > I saw in the syncterm repo that there are evidently plans to implement
 > unicode at some point. It also seems to have been a pretty stale feature
 > plan that hasn't moved much in a few years.
 >
 > Any chance to inject a little interest in enabling this?

Sure, but I'm not likely the one to do most of that work (in SyncTERM), that'd be Deuce. I think the *only* place that Decue accepts SyncTERM feature requests/discussion these days is https://sourceforge.net/p/syncterm/feature-requests/
so I'd bring it up or chime-in there.
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