Subj : unicode support?
To   : esc
From : apam
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 01:40 pm

 > So boiling it all down here - is there a way, you think, that MagiTerm
 > could support all the full character encoding of a full modern
 > terminal emulator, so that we could support games and things?

Do you mean support CP437 and UTF-8 simultainiously? If so, I don't think
that's possible - there would be no way to tell what is utf-8 data and
what is not.

I think depending on what terminal you prefer, the best way would be to
either use a utf8 terminal as you have been, or convert your games to
cp437 via some sort of conversion utility. I imagine your nethack or
whatever just output to stdio, then pipe it through a converter - (I
believe there is one called cp437)

I suppose there could be some kind of hotkey to switch between utf-8 and
cp437 in magiterm, there's just no way of detecting without knowing
exactly what the data is.

Andrew


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