Increas the displayed character limit, so that the full lines in AIM and MERC Bios is useable. about ja2-stracciatella HOT 3 CLOSED

The actual limits are 400 characters for the main description and 160 characters for the additional information., hardly enough to fill the available display area.

The root of the problem are simply the awful .edt files. EDT can hardly even be called a file format, it is just a blob of obfuscated UCS-2 code points (which are often even incorrectly encoded and have to be fixed up) and it is up to the user of the files to make some sense out of that blob. Since EDT has absolutely no metadata you cannot simply decree that some strings should be longer or shorter than others.

Ideally we would have some mechanism in place that would allow users to override all .edt files with JSON files, not just mercbios.edt and aimbios.edt. That would not only solve this problem; users wouldn't have to use specialized Windows-only tools to edit these files.

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Yep. I think there is already an approach that does that for some dialogue files. Not sure if it simply first searches for .json and then falls back to .edt.

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We have this "test-json-dialog" mod: https://github.com/ja2-stracciatella/ja2-stracciatella/tree/master/assets/mods/test-json-dialogs/

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