[z-machine] [Inform mntce] The Z-machine and Informs 6 and 7

[Johnny Billquist]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Rikard Peterson wrote:

> fredrik at ramsberg.net skrev:
>
> >Unfortunately, there isn't much interest in supporting accented
> >characters in terps, especially in user input. I haven't had the
> >chance to examine any of the Palm terps with regard to this, but
> >I would be surprised if any of them had acceptable support for
> >accented characters. And I'm just talking about Latin-1
> >characters here. I expect the situation is a lot worse for
> >Cyrillic, Greek etc.
> >
> >
> I haven't yet played any Swedish IF on it, but I have Frobnitz installed
> on my Palm (a Treo 600) and I loaded up "Den Mörka Manteln" to it to
> check how it handled it. I'm pleased to report that Frobnitz handles
> both input and output without problems. It only messes up in the game
> listing where the game is shown as "Den M~rka Manteln".

Well, I can report that my Z-machine implementation for the PDP-11 handles
this game just fine as well... :-)

Oh, and no, I will not implement either blorb, nor Unicode. :-)
(If someone really wants to discuss that, I'd happy to.)

	Johnny

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