Subj : Re: Latest sources..
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Vitaliy Aksyonov
Date : Thu Feb 15 2024 05:54 pm

Привет, Nicholas!

15 Feb 24 13:16, ты писал(а) мне:

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 VA>> Would be interesting to understand how screen or tmux makes a
 VA>> difference.

 NB> It wasn't much, it just displayed the above mentioned things correctly
 NB> without any additional PuTTY settings.

 VA>> BTW, what do you have for $TERM env variable?

 NB> TERM="xterm"

You may also try "putty".

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 VA>> Moved to next line is OK. It's just for messages, which has lines
 VA>> longer than your terminal width.

 NB> Is there a way to change the line length in Golded? If it is set for
 NB> something like 78 by default, maybe changing it to 79 would help as it
 NB> could be one extra character that's causing it to wrap to the next
 NB> line. Although, I don't know how replies and quotes coming from here
 NB> would look on others' systems then.. I'd rather break things on my
 NB> end, not others. :)

Just make your terminal wider and then start golded. It will use whole window width unless you use "Dispmargin" parameter in your config. As for quotes, they will be broken down to "Quotemargin" columns.

 VA>> To use cp437 you need to change Putty config for sure. And I'd
 VA>> recommend you to use one byte locale for golded if you don't need
 VA>> many different encodings. That will solve many issues for you
 VA>> right away.

 NB> Honestly, I have no interest in using CP437 in a terminal. I don't
 NB> mind some irregularities, but this time there were just more than
 NB> usual.

 NB> I don't like things easy. For some reason I enjoy making things
 NB> extremely difficult for myself.

Sure. That's your choice. :) I just want to tell that GoldEd was designed to work with one byte encodings and UTF-8 may work incorrectly.

 VA>> Some people do experience issues like you. And would be really
 VA>> great to find and fix root cause.

 NB> I agree! Then again, if/when you get iconv working properly I think
 NB> many of these issues will probably disappear since iconv > old crusty
 NB> translation tables.

I'm working on some refactoring now in charset conversions now. When that is done, then iconv integration will be very simple.

 VA>> Could you also try to remove file goldxlat.gel? Golded will
 VA>> generate it on start.

 NB> I did, and it didn't change anything. I'll use 'git bisect' and see if
 NB> I can figure out if a recent commit changes it back to the way it was.

Got it. What is weird, last commit fixed issue for one sysop and broken it for you.

Could you try to build from commit 372220588c6f17cd3f709dcb721a9144169d988c ? It was before all my changes. If it will have same behavior, then it's something wrong with setup on your side and we'll try to figure that out.

Best regards,
Vitaliy Aksyonov.

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