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|    David Gonzalez to Dennis Slagers    |
|    Linux golded    |
|    29 Nov 24 19:36:17    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48       REPLY: 2:280/2060 674962b0       MSGID: 4:930/1 674a60f4       PID: GED+W32 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0500               Hello Dennis!              29 Nov 24 07:34, you wrote to me:              Thanmks for you thorough answer.               DS> Hello David!               DS> 28 Nov 24 17:44, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:               DG>> sbbs@bbs:~$ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-1 luit -encoding 'ISO-8859-2'        DG>> gedlnx -C/home/sbbs/ Command 'luit' not found, did you mean:        DG>> command 'quit' from snap quit (1.0+git) command 'lfit' from deb        DG>> fitsh               DS> if luit cannot be found you have to install it        DS> as far as I know luit is part of x11-utils               DS> luit is not a standalone package in most modern Debian or Ubuntu        DS> distributions. It is part of the X.Org project and typically included        DS> in the x11-utils package.               DS> apt install x11-utils              sbbs@bbs:~$ sudo apt search x11-utils       Sorting... Done       Full Text Search... Done       x11-utils/noble,now 7.7+6build2 amd64 [installed]        X11 utilities               DS> Hoever in my tests and in my terminal this was not a solution for your        DS> issue to fix it I had to add (I use fidian with goldED, which is ran        DS> under tmux and ttyd) (as per example):               DS> Environment=LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8        DS> Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8        DS> Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8              I read about tmux and a 4 window layout for SBBS, but that's new to me, so not       gonna even ask.               DS> Without it a lot of things went wrong on display with my Debian ..        DS> with this .. its working ok btw . .sometimes you have to reboot and/or        DS> logout/login to make it work correctly.               DS> But in general above would even not solve the issue               DG>> X terminal emulator               DG>> Whatever the error I'm making... I cannot seem to find it               DS> It's difficult as a number of settings can cause golded not to        DS> function properly with its display               DS> if in your normal shell you still get the qqqqqq your standard        DS> encoding within your shell is not ok But .. you have to take care on        DS> the config               DS> for instance I start my golded from a bin/bash script, but when I do        DS> not use               DS> export TERM=screen.xterm-256color              I do get aline layout, meaningn no "qqqq"               DS> this line .. I do not get the 'lines' but I get the qqqqqqq ..               DS> so please first try to get it running correctly without Luit . .as        DS> that should be possible eliminate as much encoding/decoding stuff as        DS> that could cause issues ..               DS> Try to make a bin/bash to make encoding sometimes easier rather than        DS> being busy with .bashrc etc. but I do not know how well experienced        DS> you are in linux. (On certain levels I lack serious knowledge, so I        DS> try a lot of things and I also sometimes use chatgpt or co-pilot to        DS> check what direction to go ..              When you said regular shell, you meant alinux virtual console, I tried that       with the ones proxmox show VC, I gues it was called, well, no lines but       "qqqq", so that must be some encoding orXKAT thing and No, as I said before I       cannot call myself Lnux guru in any way, I know some commands, but I said that       before and gained some hate, so...               DS> not always direct an answer but it gives you guidelines/hints/tips you        DS> could try.              I have not gone that path because I was in doubt CGP would even know about       Fido, golded, but I guess If I feed it the right links I could do something               DS> Dennis              Thanks again!.               DS> ... I don't troubleshoot; I blame the vendor.        DS> --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240309        DS> * Origin: ---- BOFH: Problem solved, user deleted. (2:280/2060)              David              SEEN-BY: 902/26 930/1 10 341/66 900/106 902/19 280/464 229/426 900/102 4/0       SEEN-BY: 90/0 900/0 902/0       PATH: 930/1 902/26           |
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