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NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode

Posted by timothy on from the pressing-issues dept.

An anonymous reader writes After years of relative silence, the development team behind the classic roguelike game NetHack has posteda question: going forward, what internal representation should the NetHack core use for Unicode characters? UTF8? UTF32? Something else? (See also: NH4 blog, reddit. Also, yes, I have verified that the question authentically comes from the NetHack dev team.)

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  1. Re:Better to not support it at all by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

    What use are those characters anyway? You don't need funny accents on letters to play Nethack.

    For more terrifying monster types, of course. You haven't really battled a Chinese dragon until you've done it using the original Han character set.

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