Feature request: translate input

Open shadowlmd opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Would it be possible to implement translation of input to a codepage defined in Options.Font? Currently, it is only possible to input Latin characters, which is quite inconvenient for non-English BBS. Such feature would also solve #20.

Nov 28 '23 10:11 shadowlmd

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can you provide an example?

Nov 28 '23 17:11 rickparrish

Simple example: https://bbs.bsrealm.net/ - try entering a Cyrillic name here.

Right now it won't work because fTelnet doesn't accept non-Latin input from keyboard at all. But even if it would accept it, it would most probably be UTF-8, and the BBS software expects CP866 encoding.

Nov 28 '23 18:11 shadowlmd

Sorry, I'm not sure that I'd be able to test this properly, let alone implement it, so it would take another programmer to tackle and submit a pull request I think.

Apr 14 '24 19:04 rickparrish