Time  Nick        Message
14:53 sfan5       kyle56: fixed
17:08 lissobone   Hi.
17:08 lissobone   I have noticed that non-ASCII characters are encoded weidrly in the server log file.
17:09 lissobone   I wanted to read what my friends had written, but I don't know what encoding is that.
17:09 lissobone   What encoding does minetest use for logging?
17:12 lissobone   For example, my friend wrote “ладна”.  I don't know how to interpret this.
17:12 lissobone   Wait, Emacs converted it!
17:42 sfan5       utf-8
17:45 lissobone   Thanks, I have already discovered that in Emacs.
18:08 dibesfer[m] Nice
18:08 dibesfer[m] Dont thank urself tho
18:09 dibesfer[m] Well I dunno xD
18:44 lissobone   (decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'utf-8)
18:44 lissobone   That's the thing that helped me.
18:48 lissobone   It just so happens that ERC handles such cases automatically, converting unintelligible bytes to human-readable words.  And only because GNU Emacs and ERC are Free Software (and not “open source”, like some geeks like do describe it) I could study the source code, find out how it handles this task and share it with you.
19:12 MTDiscord   <luatic> It's not like detecting encodings is exclusive to Emacs or free software. The most basic editors have it. It's as simple as trying a few common encodings (ASCII, Extended ASCII / Latin-1, the weird ISO ones, UTF-8, UTF-16). If you get invalid sequences, you can rule out encodings. Otherwise, simply compare character frequencies against expected character frequencies (say for English), and chose the most likely one based on that. Of course
19:12 MTDiscord   editors will probably have more advanced approaches, but it's not that hard.
20:51 fluxionary  suppose i'm creating a mod, which other mods will register things with while mods are loading, and not change afterwards. is there some way to share that data with an async environment without passing it as an argument with every call? i guess i could write it to a temp file, and register that with register_async_dofile? that seems... a bit messy though.
21:26 fluxionary  can you even use `register_async_dofile` in an `on_mods_loaded` callback?
21:28 sfan5       no idea
21:35 muurkha     ugh