Question MUD in other languages

Hello all.

I'm just curious about what i would take to be able to use the MUD server in other languages.
That will require to have room, object and mob descriptions in another language and also to have the ability to receive commands in the foreign language as well.

steliosm wrote: Hello all.

I'm just curious about what i would take to be able to use the MUD server in other languages.
That will require to have room, object and mob descriptions in another language and also to have the ability to receive commands in the foreign language as well.

You would have to rewrite everything yourself.

You say everything you mean everything starting from the scratch or just changing all the sprinted strings into the new language?

steliosm wrote: You say everything you mean everything starting from the scratch or just changing all the sprinted strings into the new language?

I mean every output, every room description, every object description, every mob description, and etc.

Well - duh! Of course you'd have to actually create the world in the language you're planning to use.

However, more importantly, you'd have to make some subtle changes to the codebase if you wish to support a character set larger than ASCII. And in some cases as soon as you pass character 127 (ASCII high bit).

Everything from "load from disk" to "send data to descriptor" is based on ASCII in the current version. So no japanese for you. Or Croatian.
There are some tbamud developers outthere who run spanish and portuguese muds. They've had to deal with some issues in comm.c to handle sending accented characters like â and õ.

Let me check if I can find a link or two.

Edit: No links, but contact Drefs via personal message - he's been running a portuguese mud for some time.

@Liko Yes, I meant changes in the codebase core.

@thomas Looks like the file that I will need to start with.