ID:108199
 
This issue has been marked as a duplicate of id:100087
Applies to:DM Language
Status: Duplicate

This issue has been marked as a duplicate of id:100087
Others in the past wanted or suggested Unicode support for DMB files. So, I would like to make such a request. Studying DMB files myself, I know how it could implemented too. Just add a bitflag that can be used to determine if a DMB is ANSI or Unicode. Heck, even special bitflags could be used for different UTF types. Of course there might need to be some reworkings to support new DMB files that enables Unicode mode.

Each mode provides different advantages like the current mode (ANSI) provides for compact DMB files due to one byte characters compared to two bytes of UTF-16 or even four bytes of UTF-32. Strings can still utilize the same length system, but with each character being of two bytes or four instead of one for Unicode mode. That is all I have for this request at present.

Edit 1: Macro mode can be adapted for the UTF-16 mode at least if the current character for it is used as a legal string. Try something like 0xFFFF (65535), but can still maintain the current macros (just in UTF-16 form) if ya plan to add the feature.
Because nobody pointed out that it was a duplicate?
Bandock did, on the original request.
Super Saiyan X wrote:
Bandock did, on the original request.

Yep. My request is a duplicate. Only thing I did with mine was add on how it should work inside the DMB files.
Add the ability to use ASCII codes for Gender Symbols such as ♂ and ♀ .
In response to Xx305xX
Those two characters don't exist in most Extended ASCII/single byte character sets (of which BYOND seems to use the Windows-1252)

You'd need unicode support to get characters like that, so I'm going to merge this with the last unicode request.

Aka something that will never get done. Great.