https://thebigwave.net/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Change_6963 2026-11-05T02:54:27Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.2 https://thebigwave.net/wiki/index.php?title=Change_6963&diff=15932&oldid=prev 2026-11-05T02:09:53Z

<p>Restore accented letters lost on the way from the MUD (UTF-8 cutover)</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 18:09, 4 November 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 05 02:07:08 2026 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Wildcat &lt;br&gt;Title : Tsunami now speaks UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The MUD now uses UTF-8 everywhere, including telnet, the web client, &lt;br&gt;Discord, the boards, mail and the database. Accented letters (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">� � � �</del>), &lt;br&gt;curly quotes, symbols and emoji now show correctly for everyone, whichever &lt;br&gt;client they use, and they come through Discord intact in both directions. &lt;br&gt;Your saved aliases, titles, mail and tell history were converted. If you &lt;br&gt;had the same alias typed two different ways (for example "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">�</del>" from two &lt;br&gt;clients), the newer one was kept.&lt;br&gt;Most clients need nothing done. Mudlet switches to UTF-8 by itself: we nw &lt;br&gt;offer the telnet CHARSET option. MUSHclient users should tick "UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;(Unicode)" in the world's Output settings.&lt;br&gt;If accented letters or symbols look like two odd characters (<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">é </del>instead of &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">�</del>), or what you type loses its accents, your client is still using &lt;br&gt;Latin-1. This mostly happens with zMUD, older CMUD, BlowTorch or Windows &lt;br&gt;telnet. To go back to Latin-1, type:  setenv charset latin-1&lt;br&gt;With latin-1, characters your client can't show become the nearest plain &lt;br&gt;one (a curly quote becomes ') or a "?". Use 'setenv charset ascii' for &lt;br&gt;plain ASCII only, or 'setenv charset auto' (the default) to let your &lt;br&gt;client and the MUD agree on it again. The setting is account-wide.&lt;br&gt;Report anything that looks wrong with 'bug' or 'typo'.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 05 02:07:08 2026 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Wildcat &lt;br&gt;Title : Tsunami now speaks UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The MUD now uses UTF-8 everywhere, including telnet, the web client, &lt;br&gt;Discord, the boards, mail and the database. Accented letters (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">å ä ö é</ins>), &lt;br&gt;curly quotes, symbols and emoji now show correctly for everyone, whichever &lt;br&gt;client they use, and they come through Discord intact in both directions. &lt;br&gt;Your saved aliases, titles, mail and tell history were converted. If you &lt;br&gt;had the same alias typed two different ways (for example "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ö</ins>" from two &lt;br&gt;clients), the newer one was kept.&lt;br&gt;Most clients need nothing done. Mudlet switches to UTF-8 by itself: we nw &lt;br&gt;offer the telnet CHARSET option. MUSHclient users should tick "UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;(Unicode)" in the world's Output settings.&lt;br&gt;If accented letters or symbols look like two odd characters (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">é </ins>instead of &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">é</ins>), or what you type loses its accents, your client is still using &lt;br&gt;Latin-1. This mostly happens with zMUD, older CMUD, BlowTorch or Windows &lt;br&gt;telnet. To go back to Latin-1, type:  setenv charset latin-1&lt;br&gt;With latin-1, characters your client can't show become the nearest plain &lt;br&gt;one (a curly quote becomes ') or a "?". Use 'setenv charset ascii' for &lt;br&gt;plain ASCII only, or 'setenv charset auto' (the default) to let your &lt;br&gt;client and the MUD agree on it again. The setting is account-wide.&lt;br&gt;Report anything that looks wrong with 'bug' or 'typo'.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb-tw_:diff:1.41:old-15931:rev-15932:php=table --> </table>

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<p>Changes board post from the MUD</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 05 02:07:08 2026 &lt;br&gt;Posted by : Wildcat &lt;br&gt;Title : Tsunami now speaks UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;----------------------------------------&lt;br&gt;The MUD now uses UTF-8 everywhere, including telnet, the web client, &lt;br&gt;Discord, the boards, mail and the database. Accented letters (� � � �), &lt;br&gt;curly quotes, symbols and emoji now show correctly for everyone, whichever &lt;br&gt;client they use, and they come through Discord intact in both directions. &lt;br&gt;Your saved aliases, titles, mail and tell history were converted. If you &lt;br&gt;had the same alias typed two different ways (for example &quot;�&quot; from two &lt;br&gt;clients), the newer one was kept.&lt;br&gt;Most clients need nothing done. Mudlet switches to UTF-8 by itself: we nw &lt;br&gt;offer the telnet CHARSET option. MUSHclient users should tick &quot;UTF-8 &lt;br&gt;(Unicode)&quot; in the world&#039;s Output settings.&lt;br&gt;If accented letters or symbols look like two odd characters (é instead of &lt;br&gt;�), or what you type loses its accents, your client is still using &lt;br&gt;Latin-1. This mostly happens with zMUD, older CMUD, BlowTorch or Windows &lt;br&gt;telnet. To go back to Latin-1, type: setenv charset latin-1&lt;br&gt;With latin-1, characters your client can&#039;t show become the nearest plain &lt;br&gt;one (a curly quote becomes &#039;) or a &quot;?&quot;. Use &#039;setenv charset ascii&#039; for &lt;br&gt;plain ASCII only, or &#039;setenv charset auto&#039; (the default) to let your &lt;br&gt;client and the MUD agree on it again. The setting is account-wide.&lt;br&gt;Report anything that looks wrong with &#039;bug&#039; or &#039;typo&#039;.&lt;br&gt; ```&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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