[z-machine] [Inform mntce] The Z-machine and Informs 6 and 7
David Kinder
d.kinder at btinternet.com
Fri Oct 21 20:00:23 BST 2005
samwyse wrote:
> "Shiver me timbers! I've been spotted! I'd best hie meself off to the
> maze to hide me secret agenda!"
:)
> I don't recall the earlier revisions' details, but is there any reason
> why a special ZSCII sequence couldn't just flag the rest of the string
> as UTF-8?
That was about the size of it: a special sequence indicated a different
encoding for the following characters that allowed any Unicode characters
in a reasonably efficient form.
David
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