Charset misery on CAO

Hi all,

I usually play Crawl on the CAO server, and I'm having difficulty getting
the display right. I found this:

http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Configuring_Character_Sets

So I've set

char_set = ibm

in my options on the server. I play via PuTTY, either on my phone (Nokia
E90) or on a PC. On the PC I followed the instructions to configure PuTTY
for CP437, and it almost works. The only problem is that instead of dots for
empty squares, I see huge swathes of inverted triangles. Does anyone
understand this problem? Is there a solution? Have I done something wrong?

The Symbian version of PuTTY is slightly less well endowed with options, but
I've still managed to set it to CP437. On the E90 I don't get the triangles
(I get double-dots instead, which is a little painful but playable), but I
have a different problem: I can't see dark greys. So there's no difference
between a previously-seen square and a never-seen square: they're both
black. I can't see switched-off skills in the 'm' screen either. Is there a
simple switch to use a higher-contrast set of colours, or do I need to
change individual colour settings in the server options?

Finally, I'd like to ask about the viewport - this is something I've not
come across in other roguelikes. On the E90 my screen is 100 cols by 27
rows, and of course I can ensure that a PuTTY client on other machines has
the same dimensions. Is it safe to simply add the extra 20 cols and 3 rows
to the default 33x21 viewport? If I did that and set it to 53x24, would I
risk losing any displayed info? Apologies if that's a stupid question.

Many thanks in advance,

CC
P.S. I noticed that my earlier games disappeared after the latest version
upgrade on the server, though they're still there in the raw data dir. Is
there a way to ask c.a.o to display my previous games as well as my recent
ones? It'd be nice to see which race/class combos I've tried.

On 2008-12-04, Magnate <not.RemoveThis@receiving.here> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I usually play Crawl on the CAO server, and I'm having difficulty getting
> the display right. I found this:
>
> http://chaosforge.org/crawl/index.php?title=Configuring_Character_Sets
>
> So I've set
>
> char_set = ibm
>
> in my options on the server. I play via PuTTY, either on my phone (Nokia
> E90) or on a PC. On the PC I followed the instructions to configure PuTTY
> for CP437, and it almost works. The only problem is that instead of dots for
> empty squares, I see huge swathes of inverted triangles. Does anyone
> understand this problem? Is there a solution? Have I done something wrong?

I'm guessing it's an issue with the font you have, but I don't know
about either of those setups to say for sure, sorry.

> The Symbian version of PuTTY is slightly less well endowed with options, but
> I've still managed to set it to CP437. On the E90 I don't get the triangles
> (I get double-dots instead, which is a little painful but playable), but I
> have a different problem: I can't see dark greys. So there's no difference
> between a previously-seen square and a never-seen square: they're both
> black. I can't see switched-off skills in the 'm' screen either. Is there a
> simple switch to use a higher-contrast set of colours, or do I need to
> change individual colour settings in the server options?

Does it have only eight colors? There's a simple switch at compiletime, but
that doesn't help here. You can change the settings in your options file,
at least...

> Finally, I'd like to ask about the viewport - this is something I've not
> come across in other roguelikes. On the E90 my screen is 100 cols by 27
> rows, and of course I can ensure that a PuTTY client on other machines has
> the same dimensions. Is it safe to simply add the extra 20 cols and 3 rows
> to the default 33x21 viewport? If I did that and set it to 53x24, would I
> risk losing any displayed info? Apologies if that's a stupid question.

If you did lose information, it would be obvious, so there's no harm in
trying it; I think it should be fine. (All of us who watch at 80x24 will
be peeved though. )

> Many thanks in advance,
>
> CC
> P.S. I noticed that my earlier games disappeared after the latest version
> upgrade on the server, though they're still there in the raw data dir. Is
> there a way to ask c.a.o to display my previous games as well as my recent
> ones? It'd be nice to see which race/class combos I've tried.

They're all available at http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring03/ ; I
separated them out because the scoring systems are so different. Queries
to Henzell, the bot in the IRC channel, can be asked to use all or
just >0.3 stats; "a web interface for Henzell queries" should be on
my wishlist if it's not (I'll check) but there are potential security
issues and it's hard and I'm lazy.

Hope this helps,

-r.