Feature request: translate input

rickparrish / fTelnet

fTelnet: An HTML5 WebSocket client

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Feature request: translate input #23

Open shadowlmd opened 9 months ago

shadowlmd commented 9 months ago

Would it be possible to implement translation of input to a codepage defined in Options.Font? Currently, it is only possible to input Latin characters, which is quite inconvenient for non-English BBS. Such feature would also solve #20.

rickparrish commented 9 months ago

Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can you provide an example?

shadowlmd commented 9 months ago

Simple example: https://bbs.bsrealm.net/ - try entering a Cyrillic name here.

Right now it won't work because fTelnet doesn't accept non-Latin input from keyboard at all. But even if it would accept it, it would most probably be UTF-8, and the BBS software expects CP866 encoding.

rickparrish commented 4 months ago

Sorry, I'm not sure that I'd be able to test this properly, let alone implement it, so it would take another programmer to tackle and submit a pull request I think.