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Subj : Re: charset question for Immortal Barons
To : Digital Man
From : Andy Alt
Date : Thu Jul 09 2026 07:30 am
Subject: Re: charset question for Immortal Barons
-=> Digital Man wrote to Andy Alt <=-
DM> Traditional BBS terminals (including even modern ones like SyncTERM,
DM> Netrunner, etc.) do not (yet) support UTF-8 - just CP437. And
DM> Synchronet assumes all doors, by default, output CP437. So you need to
DM> convert your output character set to CP437. It's not a "design" so much
DM> as an implementation detail. --
DM> digital man (rob)
Thanks! That pretty much confirms things. Regarding sbbs, has there ever been a
discussion about configuring a door to use the charset the user has enabled (or
what's been auto-detected) in their settings?
On a loosely related topic, I've been working on modemu2k, and for testing, I
use it with minicom. On Vertrauen (and other boards), cp437 is auto-detected,
but I get odd characters (mostly '?'s) at some of the ANSI screens. When I
tried minicom's '-R CP437' option, the characters were correct, but some of the
block chars weren't positioned properly (at the main menu, for example), and
the prompt appeared in the lower-right corner of the menu, buried in the
border. Other sbbs boards I've tried recently have an option where I can
manually change to UTF-8, and that always gives me the correct output when
using minicom. On Vert, I've changed to US-ASCII (I didn't see a utf-8 option).
I've used syncterm (telnet/ssh client) a little and so far never have to change
any settings on vert or in syncterm for proper operation.
--
-Andy
Website: https://andy5995.github.io
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