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  • [ANSI] Extended ASCII in Python 3 & Mystic

    From codefenix@21:4/141.1 to All on Wed Sep 25 17:25:56 2024
    Been experimenting with Python in my spare time ov
    er here on my Mystic board,version
    1.12 A48 on Windows 10
    64-bit.Consider the followi
    ng Python code:import mystic
    _bbs as bbsprint ( chr(248
    ) )bbs.writeln ( chr(
    248) )If I run this scrip
    t from mystic as a Python 2.7.18
    script, the output, whichis intend
    ed, is:øøHowever, whe
    n run in Mystic as a Python 3.12.6 script, the output becomes:
    øøSeems the bbs.writ
    eln function is not pumping the correct extended ASCII
    characters to the BBS terminal. Guessing it h
    as to do with encoding in Python3.x
    versus Python 2.7. Characters
    in the range below 128 display just fine.
    Is there a trick to getting Python 3.x to d
    isplay extended ASCII in theterminal, or
    is this just something that doesn't work (yet
    )? I've come tounderstand that P
    ython 2.7 is still widely used in M
    ystic, and maybe this isjust one of the reasons w
    hy?
    Ú codefenix - dawnCHAOTIC
    ³ telnet://conchaos.synchro.net:2300
    ³ ssh://conchaos.synchro.net:2200


    ... The dog ate my .REP packet

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
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  • From codefenix@21:4/141.1 to ALL on Thu Sep 26 09:51:38 2024
    OK, so two things:

    1) Sorry my last message came across as ANSI, as that was unintended. I think by using the ANSI editor to include the extended ASCII characters in my example, I must have posted the message as ANSI inadvertently.

    2) I found several older messages on the topic on this and on other networks, and yeah, it would seem printing extended ASCII characters to the terminal in Python 3 is indeed problematic in Mystic.

    Oh well. I guess I'll just hold off on trying to do any Python 3 stuff. I almost want to scrap Python entirely for this reason and learn MPL stuff instead.

    Ú codefenix - dawnCHAOTIC
    ³ telnet://conchaos.synchro.net:2300
    ³ ssh://conchaos.synchro.net:2200


    ... If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: dawnCHAOTIC: telnet://conchaos.synchro.net:2300 (21:4/141.1)