Nicholas Boel wrote to Paul Quinn on Saturday December 01 2012 at 23:35:   
      
   NB> BTW: While I'm in the midst of toying with these ideas. Would you be   
   NB> so kind as to help me out with my charsets? I'd like to be able to get   
   NB> to where you're at, being able to view the "special" characters you   
   NB> mentioned early last month...   
      
   Linux? All I can say is "good luck". I once tried for over a month and after a   
   great deal of work managed to get everything except the German Esszet (the   
   double "s" that looks like a capital B) to display properly. The main problem   
   appears to be that GoldED is a console program, consoles have their own   
   character sets, but so so does GoldED - so somwhow you have to manage to get   
   _both_ character sets in harmony.   
      
   I never managed that, although others with nominally the same system as I was   
   running claimed they had no problems, which puzzled me greatly. I had and have   
   no explanation for the different experiences.   
      
   Using MsgED for Linux, I had no problems with character display - everything   
   was displayed properly - but the program itself was simply too primitive for   
   me, as I was used to GoldED.   
      
   I don't know if that helps any, but be assured, if you have problems with   
   GoldED/Lnx not displaying non-ASCII characters correctly, you're not alone and   
   - if I consider my own experience - the problem is not trivial.   
      
   Cheers, Bob   
      
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