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   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03   
   Hello Wilfred.   
      
   09 Mar 24 16:57, you wrote to me:   
      
    VA>>> OK. Your terminal works in IBM850, but you run golded may try to   
    VA>>> run in UTF-8. That won't work and it worked before just because   
    VA>>> golded was not initializing correctly!   
      
    WvV>> Ok, so how do I fix it? ;)   
      
    WvV> Yesterday I did some experimenting with the latest golded (commit:   
    WvV> "call setlocale() before initscr() (#86)"), trying different ways to   
    WvV> start golded and different golded xlat configurations. I found 2   
    WvV> setups that work for me, so the messages with pseudo graphics in the   
    WvV> STATS area look ok:   
      
    WvV> My golded.cfg for both:   
      
    WvV> include charsets.cfg   
      
    WvV> XLATIMPORT CP437   
    WvV> XLATLOCALSET CP850   
    WvV> XLATEXPORT CP850   
      
   Do not use xlatexport cp850. This parameter is used to select charset which   
   will be used when you write messages to message base. Unless you really want   
   cp850. I assume you want to have cp437 there.   
      
   XlatImport on other side will use cp437 if message has no CHRS kludge.   
      
    WvV> And starting golded in a local Konsole terminal "TERM=xterm" with the   
    WvV> default charset set to utf-8:   
      
    WvV> # sudo -u fido LANG=en_EN.CP850 luit -encoding 'CP850'   
    WvV> /usr/local/bin/golded -f   
      
   If you use luit - than having xterm in UTF-8 is correct.   
      
    WvV> And in the same kind of terminal but with the default charset set to   
    WvV> cp850, this one works:   
      
    WvV> # sudo -u fido LANG=en_US.CP850 /usr/local/bin/golded -f   
      
   This is correct commandline to if you have your terminal in cp850. Just choose   
   what works better for you. Probably luit and terminal in UTF-8 is most   
   convenient.   
      
    WvV> I will still have to test these in a putty terminal later during the   
    WvV> coming week.   
      
   Putty will work fine. Only I suggest you to change terminal type in putty from   
   xterm (they use if by default) to putty or putty-256color. It's in   
   Connection->Data section.   
      
    WvV> And messages which have utf-8 characters, like the ones from Michiel   
    WvV> in the UTF area, don't display properly (of course). I did try adding:   
      
    WvV> XLATCHARSET UTF-8 CP850 utf8_850.chs   
      
    WvV> But that didn't help. Of course only a small subset of utf-8   
    WvV> characters can be displayed with cp850...   
      
   Golded cannot read from UTF-8. There is no Unicode support. You must use   
   another editor or GoldEd with external editor to work with Unicode.   
      
   It may convert from one-byte charsets to UTF-8, but not vise versa.   
      
   Vitaliy   
      
   ... 640K ought to be enough for anybody   
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240305-beta   
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