Subj : Re: [ansi] Visit Moe's Tavern
To   : esc
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Nov 27 2022 01:00 pm

  Re: Re: [ansi] Visit Moe's Tavern
  By: esc to MIKE POWELL on Sat Nov 12 2022 03:30 pm

 >  MP> [ANSIART]
 >
 > Hey, not sure what you intended to share here but none of the ansi codes
 > came through so the post looked like gibberish :)

Well, not really gibberish, just the ASCII ESC characters (27) have been replaced with backtick (ASCII 96) characters.

I once had code in Synchronet to convert messages such as this one into ANSI upon display. 2 years ago, I removed that support with this commit:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/f26b296b

and the message:
Removed the conversion of `[ and \xFA[ to \x1b[ in putmsg(). This unexplained output translation has been supported since at least v2.xx and I have no recollection of exactly why it was added. If I recall correctly, some BBS software at some point in time sent ANSI-encoded messages into message networks by translating the ESC (\x1b) character in the ANSI sequences to either ` or \xFA in the process. This "feature" seems like it would still work, but it's completely undocumented and I have no idea why it was added (and seriously doubt anyone relies on this behavior), so I'm removing it. If anyone misses this feature, I'll happily add it back, but I'm skeptical that'll happen.

I would like to know more about the history of what/why these messages happen and I'll happily reconsider adding support back into Synchronet (perhaps just convert such messages upon import to actual ANSI sequences).
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