Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 01:41 pm

Hi Vitaliy,

On 2024-02-25 19:06:26, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I don't have any in my standard configuration. But if I include
 WvV>> charsets.cfg from the project. All messages in the stats area with
 WvV>> linedrawing characters don't look ok. But that's the same in the
 WvV>> previous version of golded that I was using.

 VA> If you don't have any - pseudo-graphics won't work unless you have console
 VA> in same encoding as message.

 VA> Because GoldEd will only do charset translations if you have it configured.
 VA> Otherwise it just prints message as is. And codes for pseudo-graphics is
 VA> different in cp437 (message charset) and utf-8 (your terminal charset).

It seems to work best for me this way. I never got the utf-8 terminal working correctly...

 VA> When you have charsets configured - there is another issue. GoldEd may
 VA> convert from one byte encodings like cp437 to utf-8, but can't convert it
 VA> back from utf-8 to cp437. I'm working on that. Have no idea, how much time
 VA> it may take though.

I'll wait for that, before I have another go at it! ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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