Change 6963

```Originally Posted : Thu Nov 05 02:07:08 2026
Posted by : Wildcat
Title : Tsunami now speaks UTF-8
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The MUD now uses UTF-8 everywhere, including telnet, the web client,
Discord, the boards, mail and the database. Accented letters (� � � �),
curly quotes, symbols and emoji now show correctly for everyone, whichever
client they use, and they come through Discord intact in both directions.
Your saved aliases, titles, mail and tell history were converted. If you
had the same alias typed two different ways (for example "�" from two
clients), the newer one was kept.
Most clients need nothing done. Mudlet switches to UTF-8 by itself: we nw
offer the telnet CHARSET option. MUSHclient users should tick "UTF-8
(Unicode)" in the world's Output settings.
If accented letters or symbols look like two odd characters (é instead of
�), or what you type loses its accents, your client is still using
Latin-1. This mostly happens with zMUD, older CMUD, BlowTorch or Windows
telnet. To go back to Latin-1, type: setenv charset latin-1
With latin-1, characters your client can't show become the nearest plain
one (a curly quote becomes ') or a "?". Use 'setenv charset ascii' for
plain ASCII only, or 'setenv charset auto' (the default) to let your
client and the MUD agree on it again. The setting is account-wide.
Report anything that looks wrong with 'bug' or 'typo'.
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