BIG5TOUTF8 character display error

[rarealphacat]

BIG5TOUTF8 such as "一" "世" "護" are having display problems. Their corresponding big5 codes are A440 A540 & C540

[scandum]

Thanks, might be a while before I get around to this.

Would be helpful if anyone can confirm this, because I'm not a fan of blindly changing things. Could it also be a server side problem?

[rarealphacat]

Thank you. I've just tried with two another BIG5 mud and they have the same display problem, so I'd suggest it is not a server side problem or it is their common server setting preferences. BTW, I am using 2.02.05.

I've also tried with encoding BIG-5 instead and it shows another type of display problems.

charset BIG5TOUTF8

---

charset BIG-5

Notice how the BIG-5 shows "一" "世" "護" without problem but both charset configs are unable to handle the final line correctly.

*edit - sorry idk how to fix the bold XD

[scandum]

Judging from the first screenshot it looks like the problem also manifests when translating BIG5 to UTF8.

Could you provide me with the raw BIG5 string that is causing the display problems before (Board)?

[rarealphacat]

The string before (Board) is "τν交流版τν(Board) [ 30 張留言 ]" and the characters "tv" does not seems to be regular English characters, they should be some sort of special symbols (Greek?).

So it shouldn't be the BIG5 string that caused the display problem there as it can be displayed properly when I repeat that with "say". Anyway, 交流版 should turns into "A5E6" "AC79" "AAA9" correspondingly.

[scandum]

Thanks, could you tell me the sequences preceding (Board) as displayed when #config convert on has been enabled?

[rarealphacat]

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[XMLSDK]

No display problem for me using:

• PuTTY 0.74
• Tintin++ 2.02.11
• Font: MingLiU 細明體
• Server: HKMUD.com 8888

[scandum]

I took a closer look at the utf8 / big5 translation table and everything seems to check out. Maybe double check if the problem is fixed in 2.02.11, since XMLSDK has no issues.

As for the other displaying issue, looks like a bunch of color codes are mixed in. Is it possible they're trying to display a chinese character with the left side a different color than the right side?

[rarealphacat]

2.02.11 seems to fixed the first displaying problem.

The second display problem with #config convert on looks like this

\e[0m \e[0;1;34m�\e[1mn\e[1;36m�\e[1mh\e[1;37m�\e[1m�\e[1m�\e[1my\e[1m� \e[1m�\e[1;36m�\e[1mn\e[1;34m�\e[1mh\e[0m(Board) [ 17 張留言 ]\e[0m

It does not look like they're trying to display 2 colors for the same character. But afaik those ain't regular Chinese character, they are other some other special symbol (maybe they are not in the library?). I will get back to you if i can find the corresponding BIG5 code and thank you for the version update :bow:

[scandum]

In that case I assume the characters aren't in the translation table. If you get me the big5 character and corresponding unicode character I can check, and add them if they're missing.

[rarealphacat]

The corresponding codes appears to be as below:

Big5 τ A36E ν A36F Unicode τ 03C4 ν 03C5 reference Can you check if they are missing? If so, would be great if you can also add the related :D

edit I also see these wandering around in game

<118>big5_to_utf8: did not find big5 index '0xf9fc' <118>big5_to_utf8: did not find big5 index '0xf9fd'

[scandum]

I added these definitions to the table:

index decimal    hex  unicode
-------------------------------
18924   63994  f9-fa     9581 ╭
18925   63995  f9-fb     9582 ╮
18926   63996  f9-fc     9584 ╰
18927   63997  f9-fd     9583 ╯

τ and ν are in the table, so I suspect the issue lies elsewhere. Having the raw data as sent by the MUD would be helpful.

My best guess is that it's mixing color codes with big5 to display a chinese character with each half having a different color. Maybe ask the MUD to fix it if that's the case?

[rarealphacat]

I will try and contact the maintainer. Closing with comment as there's not much we can do from here.