Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-

But other than some recent experiments I've been working on, I know of
no doors that actually handle the charset conversions themselves.

Immortal Barons does now.

https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/

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Re: Re: Immortal Barons (BRE Clone)
By: Andy Alt to Digital Man on Thu Jul 09 2026 06:13 pm

Subject: Re: Immortal Barons (BRE Clone)

Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-

But other than some recent experiments I've been working on, I know of no doors that actually handle the charset conversions themselves.

Immortal Barons does now.

https://andy5995.github.io/immortal-barons/charset/

How do you suppose the BBS software is going to add the -utf8 or -cp437 option on the command-line when invoking the door, only for UTF-8 callers?
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On 09 Jul 2026, Digital Man said the following...

How do you suppose the BBS software is going to add the -utf8 or -cp437 option on the command-line when invoking the door, only for UTF-8
callers? --

mystic can accept:

door.exe -%C

and it'll replace %C with "UTF8" or "CP437"

what can Synch do? run some javascript and check the ACS for UTF8 or CP437? print an error to the user if it's neither?

seems like the sysop will figure it out somehow.

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Digital Man wrote to fusion <=-

send emojis or send text translated to non-English languages/locales?
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digital man (rob)

I've implemented support for translations. Using po4a for in-game help, which is "extracted" from the website docs.

Not that I expect translators will be rushing to work on the project, but if anyone does want to translate it, they'll be able to. ;)

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fusion wrote to Digital Man <=-

On 09 Jul 2026, Digital Man said the following...

How do you suppose the BBS software is going to add the -utf8 or -cp437 option on the command-line when invoking the door, only for UTF-8
callers? --

mystic can accept:

door.exe -%C

and it'll replace %C with "UTF8" or "CP437"

Ah, good to know! Thank you.

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Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-

Many locales can be mostly (or completely) supported using just CP437,
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digital man (rob)

Right now, IB disables languages completely when running with the -cp437
flag (or if cp437 is auto-detected). I've asked Claude about what you said above and going to try to have it implement something like this:

The genuinely simple way to support the CP437-printable ones (and this is the >nice part): you don't hand-categorize. IB already transcodes UTF-8CP437 via

charmap. So loop each language's PO catalog through the CP437 encoder at >load/build time Ä if every character maps cleanly, mark that catalog >CP437-safe and allow it in CP437 mode; if any character fails to map, restrict

that language to the UTF-8 path. That auto-discovers German/Spanish/etc. as >CP437-usable without you maintaining a list, and it naturally excludes >Cyrillic, Czech, and CJK.

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