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   Richard Menedetter to Flavio Bessa   
   Changing from CP866 to CP850   
   22 Sep 17 22:28:58   
   
   Hi Flavio!   
      
   20 Sep 2017 09:27, from Flavio Bessa -> All:   
      
    FB> XLATLOCALSET KOI8   
      
   This is the charset that you use locally (on your computer).   
   Eg LATIN-1   
      
    FB> XLATIMPORT CP866   
      
   This is the charset that Golded will assume a message is written in if the   
   message does not specify which charset it used. (eg. no chrs kludge)   
   Eg LATIN-1 or CP437 or CP850   
      
    FB> XLATEXPORT CP866   
      
   What charset should be used for sending out messages.   
   Eg LATIN-1   
      
    FB> XLATCHARSET KOI8 CP866 koi_866.chs   
      
   Here you add the translation files in the above case from koi to 866.   
      
    FB>         I understand I should replace CP866 for CP850, but what should   
    FB> I put at XLATLOCALSET? and I saw at the .chs directory that there's a   
    FB> ton of cp850-related files...   
      
   CP850 is DOS latin-1.   
   Are you sure you want to use that?   
   Eg. are you using a DOS system configured to CP850?   
   All modern operating systems use UTF-8, sadly Golded does not really support   
   it, and most fido SW is not able to show it correctly, so the next best choice   
   is to configure the terminal to use iso-8859-1 (LATIN-1 in fido speak).   
   That is what I do here on Linux.   
      
   CU, Ricsi   
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX   
    * Origin: Closed eyes are not always sleeping. (2:310/31)   

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