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|    Nicholas Boel to Sebastian Raase    |
|    High ASCII output with Python 3 - how?    |
|    13 Jul 23 16:32:28    |
      REPLY: 2:240/8001 a7b3ca5c       MSGID: 1:154/10 64b06dce       CHRS: UTF-8 4       TZUTC: -0500       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2021-05-15       Hello Sebastian,              On Thu Jul 13 2023 11:14:18, you wrote to All:               SR> I am looking into developing a DOOR using Python 3.x for Mystic.               SR> However, I cannot use write() or writeln() to output a string        SR> containing special characters (such as „ [ae] ” [oe] á [sz]), they        SR> will display incorrectly. The BBS is running in CP437 and so are        SR> clients.               SR> If I encode the characters manually and call write() or writeln()        SR> using a bytestring, the user gets disconnected immediately. This may        SR> be a bug.               SR> What is the correct way to get a Python 3.x script to output special        SR> characters in Mystic?              If I remember right, Python 3.x doesn't work all that well with Mystic. Try       using Python 2.x instead, as I believe that's what was used when support for       Python was initially added.              Regards,       Nick              ... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20230205        * Origin: thePharcyde_ distribution system (Wisconsin) (1:154/10)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 114/705 120/616 123/10 120       SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/215 305 153/7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 218/700       SEEN-BY: 218/840 220/70 90 221/6 226/17 18 30 70 100 227/114 201 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/112 113 206 275 307 310 317 400 426 428 452 470 550 664       SEEN-BY: 229/700 250/5 8 266/512 267/800 280/464 282/1038 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 298/25 301/1 305/2 3 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 770/1 2320/105 3634/12 5075/35       PATH: 154/10 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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