Zugg Software :: View topic - Does CMUD support non-English MUDs?

Newbie Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 2

Hello All,

I'm playing a non-English language MUD and I have a problem with my alias and a certain cyrillic character.

I have an alias "#ALIAS с($res) {прик все спасти $res}". Here "с" is a cyrillic letter "es".

But when I'm trying to send to MUD the string "сч" (it is two cyrillic symbols not separated with space, where the first one is as in the alias above), CMUD engine for some reason uses my alias to process this string and the result beeing send to MUD is "прик все спасти ч". That is the engine treats the string "сч" like there is a space beetwen "c" and "ч".

Also I must say that this only happens with "сч", "c"+"any other symbol" is not processed by this alias.

So my question is does CMUD support non-English characters or not? I do know that there were some problems with non-english characters support in ZMud because it was designed for Win95 which itself doesn't support cyrrilic well.

Thanks in advance for your answers!

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:31 pm

Not really. CMUD only supports single-byte character strings. This allows for several non-English languages, such as German, French, Italian, etc. But it does not allow for fully "unicode" or multi-byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc). The problem with unicode support is that the development language used to create CMUD (Delphi) didn't support unicode. However, a new version of Delphi was just recently released with unicode support, so I'm expecting that in another year or so all of the 3rd party Delphi components that I use will be upgraded and I'll then be able to support unicode. So it's on my list for the future, but it's still going to be a while.

Newbie Joined: 15 Nov 2008 Posts: 2

Okay I understand, thank you for the answer.