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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 encoding on any modern non-Windows computer).

It depends on your client (i.e., the program you use to connect to MUME) which one you should choose. Some clients may set it automatically if they support RFC 2066.

You change your current character encoding using one of:

  > change encoding ascii
  > change encoding latin-1
  > change encoding utf-8

If your terminal doesn't show accented characters correctly in either Latin-1 or UTF-8 modes, use change encoding ascii. In this mode, MUME changes accented characters into their unaccented 7 bit version (or the closest match available; e.g., the copyright sign gets replaced by 'C').

Using change encoding utf-8 or cha enc latin-1, MUME will send you accented characters.

On modern Unix installations, the default is to use the UTF-8 character encoding. Note, however, that while UTF-8 can encode any Unicode character, MUME will only accept those that exist in Latin-1. See help latin-1 for a list of the allowed characters.

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.