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[wont]

If I understood correctly, it is only possible to use a single character as a map symbol.
However, nowadays most (?) terminals use UTF-8, so it'd be really cool if it were possible to use a string instead of a character. This would make possible using Unicode line art (at least I think so).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_drawing_characters

[Scandum]

#map set roomsymbol uses a string so color can be added as well.

#map legenda uses characters, not sure how well tintin deals with unicode though.

[Scandum]

I looked into it.

To enable UTF-8 on Linux (might only work on some terminals) you'd use: \e%G and \e%@ to return to Latin-1.

So to print the cent sign you'd use: #showme {\e%G\xC2\xA2\e%@}

It's easier to switch in and out of vt100 graphics mapping using \e(0 and \e(B to return to Latin-1.

For example:

#forall {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F} {#forall {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F} {#showme (&0&&9) \e(0\x&0&&0\e(B}}

But it tends to differ a lot between terminals.

Did you try the manual suggestion? #map flag vtgraphics and setting your legenda to: 250 223 222 200 220 186 201 204 221 188 205 202 187 185 203 206 246

The vtgraphics setting toggles the \e[12m code for drawing, and \e[10m to turn it off.

[wont]

Excuse me, but I fail to understand.

Why should I set my terminal to UTF-8? It is always switched to it.
And yes, #showme {\e%G\xC2\xA2\e%@} works, but then #showme {\xC2\xA2} works equally well.

Your #forall command produces the usual printable ASCII and not much else (all the higher characters show as boxes or something weird, depending).

In contrast, #forall {8 9 A B} {#forall {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F} {#showme \xE2\x94\x&0&&0}} shows me a nice selection of weird line-art characters (not all there is).

As you can see, my preferred solution is accepting multibyte characters in legenda, not mucking around with terminal settings.

[Scandum]

Alright. The legenda uses decimal values as the input rather than escape codes, but I'll see what I can do.

[wont]

For the user it'd be easiest if the user could just paste the symbols in, not write escape codes.

(currently it is possible to do #map color ╢. It looks and is buggy, but serves as a demonstration.)

[Scandum]

Pasting shouldn't be an issue.

The following seems to do the trick for displaying UTF-8 box drawing characters:

#forall {9 A} {#forall {0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F} {#showme \xE2\x95\x&0&&0}}

I'm not sure about the best character for a no exit room and the player character, and decent characters for the n e s w exits are lacking as well.

So far I came up with the following:

#map legenda ▪ █ █ ╚ █ ║ ╔ ╠ █ ╝ ═ ╩ ╗ ╣ ╦ ╬ ▩

I uploaded a beta with the multi-byte legenda at: http://tintin.sf.net/download/tintin-beta.tar.gz