@ascii

@ascii[/list]
@ascii <character>=<text>
@ascii/remove <character>

A client that is not sent UTF-8 gets each character it cannot show as the nearest one it can (see CHARSET). @ascii keeps the game’s own table of stand-ins, which come before the built-in ones.

@ascii with no argument, or @ascii/list, lists the table: each character, its code point, and the text sent for it.

The table is kept with the game’s configuration and is the same one the web portal’s ASCII Translations page edits. Using @ascii needs the config.admin permission.

@ascii setting: setting a character’s text, and removing it again
@ascii example: a middle dot sent as a dash

Setting and removing stand-ins

@ascii <character>=<text>
@ascii/remove <character>

@ascii <character>=<text> sets the text sent for <character>, which is one character outside ASCII. The table holds each character once, so setting it again replaces its text. <text> is plain ASCII and is evaluated, so write a space as %b; it may be longer than the character, and an empty <text> leaves the character out. A box or a table is laid out after the stand-ins are applied, so it stays lined up; text you padded yourself may not.

@ascii/remove <character> takes a character out of the table, so it gets the built-in stand-in again.

Example

> @ascii <a middle dot>=%b-%b

Output: the game says a middle dot is now sent to clients without Unicode as a space, a dash and a space. A title written as Wren, a middle dot, then Scene 3 reaches an ASCII client as Wren - Scene 3 rather than Wren * Scene 3.

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