Cool, then I shall continue my work and hope I don't botch it too badly! Worst case I'll just... not submit a PR, I suppose. One question came to mind during this work: Would you be open to a PR to ...

The CLI utility telnetlib3-client is provided for connecting to servers and telnetlib3-server for hosting a server. # telnet to utf8 roguelike server telnetlib3-client nethack.alt.org # or bbs, ...