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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