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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Vitaliy Aksyonov    |
|    Re: Need volonteers to test another patc    |
|    25 Mar 24 09:01:17    |
      TID: FMail-lnx64 2.3.0.1-B20240319       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0100       CHRS: CP850 2       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20240306       MSGID: 2:280/464 660136c9       REPLY: 1:104/117 66006035       Hi Vitaliy,              On 2024-03-24 11:12:14, you wrote to me:               VA> You need to install or generate this locale and GoldEd will show those        VA> letters! What Linux distribution do you use?              wilnux5:/etc # cat os-release       NAME="openSUSE Leap"       VERSION="42.1"       VERSION_ID="42.1"       PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)"       ID=opensuse       ANSI_COLOR="0;32"       CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:42.1"       BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"       HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"       ID_LIKE="suse"              (Yes, it's old ;-))               VA> Do you need help with locale generation?              I think I found out how to do this on my system.              First I used my systems package manager to install: "glibc-i18ndata - Database       Sources for 'locale'"              Afterwards this command ran without any output:              # localedef --no-archive -f IBM850 -i en_US en_US.CP850       #              And this directory was created with contents:              /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850              And 'locale -a -v' now shows:       ...       locale: en_US directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US       -------------------------------------------------------------------------------        title | English locale for the USA        source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.        address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/        email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org        language | English       territory | USA        revision | 1.0        date | 2000-06-24        codeset | ISO-8859-1              locale: en_US.cp850 directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850       -------------------------------------------------------------------------------        title | English locale for the USA        source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.        address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/        email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org        language | English       territory | USA        revision | 1.0        date | 2000-06-24        codeset | IBM850       ...              But golded output is borked now, in my current utf-8 configured putty terminal:              https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2a5c7f2fbdc4              It doesn't matter if I use luit or not, they are displayed the same.       Also the ~A characters for messages with CHRS: CP437 in the german areas are       still there.              And this is still the same:              https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/f3961b7ea085                     Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.3.0.1-B20240319        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/260       SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/225 153/757 7715 154/10 30 203/0 218/700 221/0       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 400 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 240/1120 5832 266/512 280/464 5003 5555 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 320/219 322/757 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/16 58 256 1124 5858 467/888       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 770/1 5020/400 1042 5054/30       PATH: 280/464 460/58 229/426           |
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