UTF (unicode transformation format) is the standard for storing and sending text with multi-language characters. It's coming along slowly, and finally works in most web browsers and things, but ascii is still pretty ubiquitous in the mud world. I don't know of any UTF-aware mud clients. And if there are, you'd have a huge job in reworking the string handling functions in ROM to write UTF characters (variable number of bytes per character) instead of ascii (one byte per character). It would be cool, but like so many things, designing a custom client to go with your server would be something most people aren't up for.
--Palrich. On Monday 23 September 2002 12:37 pm, LuckyLuke wrote: > I wish to implement a language system using special fonts like the ones > tolkien is using or fonts that will fit with fantasy for example in the > likeness of arabic. So if the char does not understand the tongue will get > to his screen a language of strange and unknown symbols to him. > I have given some thought to this matter and i concluded that the players > must also support these special fonts onto their computers? > Does anyone have an idea of how i could do this idea work? > Is there another way to do this? > > Sincerely yours Christos K.
