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   Richard Menedetter to Christos Athanasopoulos   
   Changing from CP866 to CP850   
   23 Sep 17 14:28:02   
   
   Hi Christos!   
      
   23 Sep 2017 10:36, from Christos Athanasopoulos -> Richard Menedetter:   
      
    FB>>> XLATLOCALSET KOI8   
    RM>> This is the charset that you use locally (on your computer).   
    RM>> Eg LATIN-1   
      
   So you need to set this to LATIN-7   
      
    FB>>> XLATIMPORT CP866   
    RM>> This is the charset that Golded will assume a message is written   
    RM>> in if the message does not specify which charset it used. (eg. no   
    RM>> chrs kludge) Eg LATIN-1 or CP437 or CP850   
      
   You can set this eg to CP437   
   (or to LATIN-7 in the greek message groups if you use that)   
      
    FB>>> XLATEXPORT CP866   
    RM>> What charset should be used for sending out messages.   
    RM>> Eg LATIN-1   
      
   What charset are local greek messages written in usually?   
   You can set it for example to LATIN-7, as long as you only stick to ASCII for   
   non greek messages you will be fine.   
   Or you can use the golded message group config, to set it to LATIN-7 in greek   
   echos and CP437 in the others.   
      
    FB>>> XLATCHARSET KOI8 CP866 koi_866.chs   
    CA> Thanks for the info. This would be very handfull for all of us in   
    CA> Greece that started the Region 41 again.   
      
    CA> Do you know what should be the above settings for someone who has   
    CA> ISO-8859-7 localy in his Linux and want to use Greek inside Golded?   
    CA> Its been a little bit of mess with all these codepage files...   
      
   The problem is you need to write the needed translations.   
   latin-7 -> CP437   
   cp437 -> latin-7   
   also others if needed.   
      
   Never done that myself ... but looking at the CHS files it looks doable.   
   If you stick to the ASCII (lower 128 characters) you should get away with   
   trivial translations.   
   (eg empty files with only headers ;)   
   Eg. empty translations, as you will only use chars > 128 in greek.   
      
   If you want proper translations, you need to check the tables and write the   
   translations yourself:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7   
      
   Sorry that I am of no great use here :(   
   Keep us updated.   
      
   CU, Ricsi   
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX   
    * Origin: Everyone has photographic memory. Some don't have film. (2:310/31)   

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