https://phosphorbbs.net/tags/ansi/ Recent content in Ansi on Phosphor BBS Hugo en-us Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/the-case-of-the-garbled-borders-fixing-syncterm-support/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://phosphorbbs.net/blog/the-case-of-the-garbled-borders-fixing-syncterm-support/ <p>Every BBS lives or dies by its client support. MuffinTerm works. The web client works. And then a user pointed out that the most popular terminal program in the BBS world — SyncTERM, the client that most of the people dialing into boards in 2026 are actually using — rendered every screen as mojibake. Box borders turned into <code>┬í┬┐</code> soup. The login screen was unreadable. Our own sysop confirmed it the same evening from his own machine: &ldquo;completely messed up.&rdquo;</p>