Hi All,   
      
   A small update on what's in the works.  I've made some nice progress on my   
   ddtelnetd fork adding detection TTYPE for client terminal type and NAWS client   
   windows sizes.  I hope to have support for these items rolled out soon which   
   will also go into supporting my next item below.   
      
   I'm very pleased with the latest progress I've made on translating CP437   
   High-Ascii block characters to Unicode.   Thanks to the help of Dingo at   
   telnet://1984.ws I've gotten the ground work laid out for output translations   
   of CP437 ANSI line and block characters to a UTF-8 terminal.  Terminals such   
   as the Linux Console, Konsole, Xterm, gterm and other UTF-8 multibyte encoded   
   interfaces will be able to telnet and view ANSI without needing a Telnet   
   program with CP437 character set soon.  Of course a telnet program with zmodem   
   and other feature will always be the preferred method, support for Unicode   
   output opens the doors for more than just telnet interfaces being able to   
   connect and use your ANSI text system.   
      
   I've made a couple screen shots of my development build below. Once some more   
   features are added for toggling between CP437 and UTF-8 character set these   
   new features will get rolled out to the base code along with my bbs at   
   htc.zapto.org.   
      
   http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2zf1t83&s=8   
   http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=qravkx&s=8   
      
   The first screen shot shows a terminal in Ubuntu.  You can see some Unicode   
   fonts are not fixed width and will have some lines between the characters.    
   Results will vary depending on the terminal font used.   
      
   The second is a screen shot is in Arch Linux using Konsole with a fixed width   
   Unicode font.  You can see here the screen looks a lot cleaner for the block   
   graphics, although some lettering is thinner for normal text.  So..  again   
   results will vary depending on fonts installed and setup for use in your   
   terminals.  Overall this is great progress!   
      
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