Subj : Detecting Terminals
To   : dingo
From : niter3
Date : Wed Mar 20 2024 04:11 pm

di> I was the first to write a BBS that supports UTF-8 and cp437, but we
di> required selecting it manually (x84/default/charset.py script). But I
di> wanted to share with you a technique that I've been using lately that
di> should allow your BBS Softwares to automatically detect the client,
di> using the "Query Cursor Position" sequence, "\x1b[6n". You could also
di> use this to automatically detect for "bots" or "scanners" rather than
di> real users. At least, any bot would have to emulate a terminal to
di> respond correctly.
di>
di> I use this technique to automatically detect the unicode support level
di> of many terminals in my "ucs-detect" tool, "How it works"
di> https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/intro.html#how-it-works
di>
di> And the results here, https://ucs-detect.readthedocs.io/results.html

This could come handy. As of right now I'm just hardcoding it to cp437.

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