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

[David Kinder]

Richard Bos wrote:
> Then again, Windows Frotz does support not just Unicode for the
> display, but also whichever keyboard you have set up under Windows XP.
> It handles the available characters under the US-International setup
> well.  ISTM that this would be sufficient to let the user choose the
> input method which is most useable to him. WinFrotz shows just
> question marks, but that Windows Frotz allows you to choose your own
> keyboard setup and will work with that shows that it _is_ possible.
> Mind you, I haven't tried this with Cyrillic or Greek keyboards.

I have had confirmation from a Russian that it did work with his
Russian Windows PC with a Cyrillic keyboard. In the end it wasn't that
hard to implement: the trick is to keep all input and output in the
interpreter core in Unicode, and convert the input as soon as possible.

David