On September 22 2026, pweck wrote:
has anyone actually gotten their board working smoothly for callers using non-ascii characters. i've had a couple of callers mention garbled text and i'm honestly not sure where the issue is coming from, whether it's my terminal handling, the software itself, or something
on
their end entirely. if anyone's dealt with this before, i'd love to hear what the actual fix looked like, or even just what the problem usually turns out to be.
pweck
... The dog ate my .REP packet
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Pweck's Retreat (23:1/1)
Offer a fTelnet websocket based interface.
Something like this: https://code.ourbirdhouse.ca/connect/
You can then let people connect without issues, those that want to use a terminal/ssh/tenet program can, others can use the web interface.
This is why I changed from Synchronet to BinkTermPHP. Full web based
message boards, with retro doors. https://bbs.ourbirdhouse.ca
I'll end up dropping Synchronet
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