[DGD] Some strange newbie questions.

[Noah Gibbs]

  DGD itself has no trouble with nonstandard characters of any kind, but for
some of them you'll need to use a binary port rather than a telnet port.  The
problem is that DGD's default telnet protocol filters out things that may
confuse English-language telnet/MUD clients.

  So you may need to use a binary port and implement your own basic telnet
protocol.  My own MUD library, Phantasmal, does this.  It's public domain, so
you're welcome to build on it or just take the pieces you need.

--- Stefan Karamanov <vonamarak at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings to you all,
> 
> First of all, I want to thank Erwin Harte for pointing me this mailing list.
> 
>          Now, somehow straight to the point: I wanted to ask a
> question about the use of DG driver and possibility of tweaking it. I
> downloaded precompiled latest possible version of the driver for WinNT
> and I had absolutely no trouble with starting it or trying it with
> 2.4.5 mudlib - just to try if everything works fine. Then, because
> actually this was my intention - I tried how good DGD works with
> Cyrillic characters. This is very complicated thing with other
> drivers, as far as I have noticed in every board about different MUD
> engines and in my own experience. I got this idea about MUD all in my
> own language (Bulgarian) years ago, but everytime I check possible
> solution or two I drop the project for half a year ;) I have some
> MUD&MUSH creating experience, aswell as some programing skills, but
> never considered that I have the time and patience that I need to
> learn all that's required to create my own running engine.
>        I was very happy to see that DGD proccess cyrillic characters
> easily, reciving them from my MUSHClient, storing them and sending
> them back, all right. With minor change in the requirements for char
> name, I've even made some heroes named in Cyr charactes. But then, I
> got deeper, because I wanted (for the sake of the atmosphere and ease
> of cyrillic users) all the comands in bulgarian words too, written in
> cyrillic. Then I found that the driver have no problems with cyrillic
> strings in quotes ( "..." ), but displays them as errors (Illegal
> characters) while compiling when they are tried, let's say - for
> naming a command.
>        Can you suggest me a solution for those obstructions, or maybe
> a way to "alias" the unpossible cyrillic commands - existing normal
> command and assigning another name for it?
> 
> 
> 
> Every help should be much appreciated, best regards
> Stefan Karamanov
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