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[Heiko <1099688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does your game support RFC654? I have yet to see a game that does.
Your cited RFC 659 doesn't define anything about tabs.

Let me quote RFC 854:

Horizontal Tab (HT)     9      Moves the printer to the
                                         next horizontal tab stop.
                                         It remains unspecified how
                                         either party determines or
                                         establishes where such tab
                                         stops are located.

And this is why I say tab is undefined. I wrote my first computer 
program 1982 and I'm well aware of how tabs have been used historically. 
I'm also aware that some clients "somehow handle tabs" or the underlying 
terminal handles it for them. However, the questions still remains:
1. Neither game nor client know where the other party defines the tab 
positions.
2. What happens if the user sets word wrap to 20 and we use the most 
common 8-Tab-Stop-Position. Your game sends 
"this/tis/tgetting/tdifficult" How do you wrapt the lines? How about tab 
pos #3?
3. What happens if the user has triggers on this line that do larger 
text replacements in-line, insert newlines etc.?

Don't get me wrong, I'm still open for discussion but I think that games 
simply should not use tabs. Backspaces, VT100 control codes etc. are all 
things that have no room in modern clients because they are yesterday's 
tech and have no room in users actually use modern clients.

Am 26.02.2013 21:15, schrieb Jeremy Akers:
> First of all:  Not every technical definition exists in an RFC.  This is
> functionality that every other MUD client has, and even basic telnet
> apps like Windows telnet.exe and puttytel.exe also support.  There is
> support for TABs in HTML and CSS as well.  It's a well supported
> character across the spectrum.
>
> But to answer your question:
>
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc654
> and
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc659
>
> For more:
> http://www.thoughtproject.com/libraries/telnet/Reference/RFCs.htm
>

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Title:
  does not resolve the \t character

Status in Mudlet the MUD client:
  New

Bug description:
  Mudlet does not seem to support the \t character (tab). On muds where
  this is used, Mudlet prints nothing. It does not indent at all. What
  is expected is either showing the tab character or 8 spaces, but
  neither happens, and things that are aligned using tabs make things
  look all wonky, like maps, etc.

  Mudlet: 2.1
  OS: OSX 10.8.2

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