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   Niels Joncheere to All   
   Using GoldED in a UTF-8 gnome-terminal   
   09 Nov 12 18:15:36   
   
   Hello All,   
      
   I'm using GoldED+/1.1.5 under Linux (Fedora 17), but have some charset   
   issues.  The (gnome) terminal from which I start GoldED uses my system   
   character encoding, i.e., UTF-8.  I would like to keep this encoding in the   
   terminal, but write outgoing messages in CP850, as the people I write messages   
   to may not be able to correctly read UTF-8 messages.  On the command line, I   
   can type letters with accents (e.g., the letter e with an acute accent, grave   
   accent, or an umlaut on it) without any problems.  In GoldED, however, typing   
   such a letter causes multiple (two) characters to appear on the screen, of   
   which the first is a special glyph containing a questionmark, and the second   
   looks like a space.  I have the following in my golded.cfg file:   
      
     // Path where the *.ESC and *.CHS files can be found.   
     XLATPATH /home/niels/.golded/xlat   
      
     // Include file with character table declarations; add personal tuning below.   
     include charsets.cfg   
      
     XLATCHARSETALIAS ISO8859-1 LATIN-1   
      
     // The character set that incoming messages are assumed to have.   
     XLATIMPORT CP850 ; Europe   
      
     // Default character set for messages that you write.   
     XLATEXPORT CP850 ; Europe   
      
     // The actual physical character set.   
     XLATLOCALSET UTF-8   
      
   As far as I understand the configuration options, this indicates that I want   
   to receive and send messages in CP850, but my local system is conigured in   
   UTF-8.  With this configuration, I seem to be able to read other people's   
   messages correctly, even when they use letters with accents (other charsets   
   such as CP437 or LATIN-1 seem to be translated correctly to my screen).    
   However, the problem I described above remains, and I also noticed that the   
   charset placed in my outgoing messages is still UTF-8.  Does anyone have any   
   idea on how I can fix this problem?   
      
   Best regards,   
   Niels   
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20120229   
    * Origin: Niels's FidoNet Node - fido.joncheere.be (2:292/789)   

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