Subj : Re: Language Support
To   : Accession
From : fusion
Date : Fri Apr 19 2024 08:41 pm

On 19 Apr 2024, Accession said the following...
 
 Ac>  n> .dic and worldlist has been atrocious. I was also considering
 Ac>  n> non-english character such as Hebrew anyone played with that?
 Ac> 
 Ac> Not sure you're going to get very far with that. I don't think Mystic
 Ac> supports UTF-8 (or any other charset than cp437) messaging just yet.
 Ac> While it supports UTF-8 in some aspects, I'm not sure posting in other
 Ac> charsets is possible at the moment (there is not CHRS kludge at all).

DOS codepages are 100% just swapped out fonts. Although there'd be no special support for formatting messages right-to-left you could create a font and use it with Syncterm and Windows-1255 (or maybe codepage 862.. not sure how prevalent that one was) and create a Hebrew theme without any special updates to Mystic itself. Works fine with Russian and many other languages too.

Obvsiously as you said there'd be no kludge in the message to tell others what codepage the text is in so you wouldn't want the messages to make it outside your BBS or a message net that was hebrew (or whatever) only. Traditionally that wouldn't matter because you'd have your native section of Fidonet and then whatever made it out to English-speaking Fidonet only used the ASCII part of your codepage.

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