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12 Feb 2009 - 18:40	1058
vinc456 Newbie Joined: 26 Jan 2009 Posts: 4	Strange control characters when reading documentation through a pager Hello, I see strange control characters when reading some documentation such as "coding.txt" through a pager. Here is an example. Quote: If you<92>re a great game-player and have some terrific ideas about how a MUD should work, but don<92>t know how to code, you should either learn or find a good coder who can join your team. Don<92>t assume that you can get away with running a MUD without knowing C <96> you can<92>t. Not for very long, anyway. This is using the "less" pager on Debian stable. (etch) One workaround seems to be Quote: iconv -f cp1252 -t utf-8 coding.txt \| less but if anybody knows of a better solution please share. By the way great work with TBA!

18 Feb 2010 - 10:17	2359
Axanon New Member Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 48	Here's a fixed copy of the docs, they'll be included with the next release as well. http://dgscript.sytes.net/axanon/tba-3.61-docs-fixed.tar.gz -Ax

19 Feb 2010 - 03:51	2364
Rumble Contributor Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 522	Thanks, added for next release. Though when I did an SVN diff it didn't recognize your changes. __________________ Rumble The Builder Academy tbamud.com 9091

19 Feb 2010 - 23:23	2370
welcor Regular Poster Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 170	svn is blind to character encoding (or rather, autodetect it). It has to be, to be able to function across platforms. Apparently the platform used by the OP is strictly utf-8, while the files are saved with a dos editor, or in some other fashion, to become cp1252 (windows) encoded. iconv is one way of solving it. It is uncertain if this will break the code for other people, on other platforms. Also, it is hard to fix and save in svn. __________________ You know who I am.

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