Hello Maxim,   
      
   On Monday November 12 2012 at 09:36, you wrote to me:   
      
    NJ>> with accents (other charsets such as CP437 or LATIN-1 seem to be   
    NJ>> translated correctly to my screen).  However, the problem I   
    NJ>> described above remains, and I also noticed that the charset   
    NJ>> placed in my outgoing messages is still UTF-8.  Does anyone have   
    NJ>> any idea on how I can fix this problem?   
      
    MS> UTF-8 conversion works only from one side - to UTF8, not from.   
    MS> This is currect state of golded in a latest cvs sources. So you could   
    MS> read messages, but not write.   
      
   Thanks for the pointer!  In the mean time, I have managed to work around my   
   problem by setting the gnome-terminal encoding, the LC_CTYPE environment   
   variable, and all the GoldED XLAT* configuration parameters to ISO8859-1 /   
   LATIN-1.  This allows me to correctly read and write messages containing the   
   "special" characters I use myself (typically latin vowels with accents on   
   them).  With this setup, I can't read the russian characters you use, but I   
   would probably not understand them anyway, so perhaps this is as good as it   
   gets. ;-)   
      
   Kind regards,   
   Niels   
      
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