Subj : Re: WX
To : KenDB3
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Mar 29 2016 05:37 pm
Re: Re: WX
By: KenDB3 to Digital Man on Tue Mar 29 2016 11:12 am
> > Right, but how does the rest of the BBS look with PuTTY set that way?
> > Probably not very good. Right now, Synchronet doesn't support any way of
> > detecting or tracking the user's character set or encoding and pretty
> > much assumes CP437. You can send UTF-8 from your script, but most clients
> > aren't going to display it correctly and there's really no way for you to
> > know which clients will or will not display it correctly.
>
> > digital man
>
> So, I haven't forgotten about this, I've just been rather tied up. I see
> what your aiming at, and I think I'm at a bit of a disadvantage not knowing
> some history. It sounds like you are trying to politely tell me that
> UTF-8/Unicode is really not used in the BBS community, even outside the US.
I think in China it's used, but those BBSes (e.g. ptt.cc) are not really
ANSI-BBS.
> But, how do other countries utilize special characters?
Depends on the country/locale. For many western countries, CP437 supplies
enough specialized characters. For others, they just require that the client is
preconfigured for the proper character set (e.g. CP855 in soviet block
countries).
> Or, would it be a
> case where those characters are ignored and replaced with the Non-Accented
> characters that are more CP437 friendly?
I don't follow.
> I think my problem is that data is coming back from Weather Underground in
> UTF-8, which is not a problem when it is in (US) English, but starts to
> present a problem with the couple of Latin based languages I tried to
> implement. Is there any way to clean/convert the text before displaying it?
Yes, UTF-8 could be translated, but the results may not be very good/useful,
depending on stuff (e.g. the source and target locale).
> Someone asked for this feature, and I thought it would be an easier ask than
> some of the other requests I got, but it proved more challenging thanks to
> the UTF-8 characters.
>
> Any advice is welcome :-)
Stick to US-English? :-) Seriously though, I don't really have any advice on
this topic as I haven't been big on translating software to other locales or
worrying about non-CP437-capable terminals. Maybe Deuce has some advice.
<shrug>
digital man
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