Hello Robert,   
      
   On Monday December 03 2012 at 06:35, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:   
      
    RB> Linux? All I can say is "good luck". I once tried for over a month and   
    RB> after a great deal of work managed to get everything except the German   
    RB> Esszet (the double "s" that looks like a capital B) to display   
    RB> properly. The main problem appears to be that GoldED is a console   
    RB> program, consoles have their own character sets, but so so does GoldED   
    RB> - so somwhow you have to manage to get _both_ character sets in   
    RB> harmony.   
      
   I have experienced this as well.  As far as I can gather, the relevant   
   settings from the Linux side are:   
      
     - The encoding of your current terminal, e.g. gnome-terminal.  I have this   
   set to Western (ISO-8859-1)   
     - The LC_CTYPE environment variable.  I have this set to en_US.iso88591, but   
   this locale may need to be enabled first (e.g., cf. https://wiki   
   archlinux.org/index.php/Locale)   
      
   In GoldED, the relevant configuration options are mentioned in the "character   
   translation" section of advanced.cfg (which depends on charsets.cfg, and the   
   charsets dir containing translation files) that is distributed with at least   
   the sources of golded.   
      
   I have good experiences with setting XLATIMPORT, XLATEXPORT, and XLATLOCALSET   
   to LATIN-1.  Don't know if that includes esszets: I never encounter one in   
   messages I usually read ;-)  But at least the Dutch and French "special"   
   characters now work correctly.   
      
   I originally wanted to use UTF-8 for all of these charsets, but that dit not   
   work out, though people have proposed a workaround for that in this area a   
   while ago.   
      
   Best regards,   
   Niels   
      
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