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  • Feature Request: Atari ATASCII

    From Shane O'Neill@VERT to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Tue Jul 6 19:35:53 2021
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281

    With the PETSCII support can we see ATASCII in the future for all the Atari folks?

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  • From Rob Swindell@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue Jul 6 23:31:05 2021
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_2059

    PETSCII is pretty similar to ASCII, which made supporting it (PETSCII) along with US-ASCII, CP437, and UTF-8 practical. ATASCII is not similar to ASCII at all, making it much more difficult to support (as an input and output character set) in Synchronet.

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  • From Shane O'Neill@VERT to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Wed Jul 7 20:12:51 2021
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/281#note_2060

    I guess that explains why at time the ATASCII support on the Commodore Centipede 128 BBS software does not always look 100%. I hear it is currently being worked on for Image BBS but have yet to see how that looks.

    Well bummer, it was worth asking. ;)

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