Screen appearance- argh!

[Lizzi]

This is SO annoying... I don't think it used to be like this, but I
could be wrong... My ISP has Nethack, in a games menu (actually it's
how I first found Nethack years ago). I haven't played it there in a
while, but I decided to check it out again, and here's what it looks
like now: (assuming this pasting works right) Does this setup seem
incredibly annoying to anyone else?

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I have a lot of trouble noticing when a monster is coming at me, and I
keep thinking every monster is a 'u'. Argh!

Lizzi

[Ray Chason]

chi...@dog.com (Lizzi) wrote:

>This is SO annoying... I don't think it used to be like this, but I
>could be wrong... My ISP has Nethack, in a games menu (actually it's
>how I first found Nethack years ago). I haven't played it there in a
>while, but I decided to check it out again, and here's what it looks
>like now: (assuming this pasting works right) Does this setup seem
>incredibly annoying to anyone else?

[snip lotsa gibberish]

Your posting showed lots and lots of ú characters (u with acute
accent); if this is what you see, you're probably running IBMgraphics
on something that doesn't support it (some sort of terminal program?).
Try DECgraphics, and if that still shows gibberish, make sure that
both IBMgraphics and DECgraphics are turned off. Use the O command.

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[Richard Bos]

chi...@dog.com (Lizzi) wrote:

> This is SO annoying... I don't think it used to be like this, but I
> could be wrong... My ISP has Nethack, in a games menu

So presumably you can't change its IBM/DECgraphics options?

> here's what it looks
> like now: (assuming this pasting works right) Does this setup seem
> incredibly annoying to anyone else?
>
>

> ЪДДДї
> ЪДДДДДДДДДДї
> і і
> іъъъъъъъъъъі
> °ю< і
[Snip]

Very annoying. But you just might be able to do something about it. You
are playing this, I presume, through your web browser. This browser has
a setting determining which fonts it uses by default, for monospaced and
proportional text. Change the one for monospaced to another font with
another character encoding; for example, if it is now Courier, and
you're on MS Windows, try terminal instead. This could help; it's not
guaranteed to, though.

Richard