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ASCII, CHANGE CHARSET, CHANGE ENCODING, CHARACTER ENCODING, CHARSET, ENCODING, UTF-8, UTF8

MUME has different modes of displaying information to the players, using one of three different character sets: 7-bit standard ASCII, 8-bit Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), or UTF-8 (the default Internet encoding).

It depends on your client (the program you use to connect to MUME) which one you should choose. Most clients will automatically set it.

There are two settings that control the behavior: the network encoding you use; and which character set you want to receive.

To change which characters you receive, use change charset:

  > change charset auto         (default)
  > change charset ascii
  > change charset latin-1
  > change charset utf-8

If you get garbled characters your network encoding probably needs changing. Use

change
encoding

for that. This is not possible if the client sets it automatically.

If you select a character set different from UTF-8, you will get transliterated output: accented characters may be replaced with their closest counterpart, emojis may be replaced with [:something:], and some characters will be replaced by ?.

In order to save people from having to type all the obscure characters to identify objects, players and such, all keyword comparison is done on unaccented letters.

If your keyboard lacks the keys to type accented letters, there are various ways to do this. If you are running Windows, you can use an "International" character set which lets you type 'A for an accented A.

A Compose key is a special prefix key that you press in order to write compound characters, so Compose " E would give you an E with an umlaut.

If your computer is running some Unix variant, you can configure your keyboard to have a Compose key. On most modern Linux installations you can do this in the normal keyboard configuration dialogs.