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|    Nicholas Boel to you    |
|    High ASCII output with Python 3 - how?    |
|    13 Jul 23 16:32:28    |
      From: nospam.Nicholas.Boel@f10.n154.z1.fidonet.org              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."              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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