Subj : Re: [ansi] Visit Moe's Tavern
To   : Digital Man
From : deon
Date : Mon Nov 28 2022 03:26 pm

  Re: Re: [ansi] Visit Moe's Tavern
  By: Digital Man to esc on Sun Nov 27 2022 01:00 pm

Hey DM,

 > 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

 > 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,

 > 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).

Does that you can revert it now, now that you know why it was there?

(Just askin')


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