Subj : Re: Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Mar 25 2024 09:01 am

Hi Vitaliy,

On 2024-03-24 11:12:14, you wrote to me:

 VA> You need to install or generate this locale and GoldEd will show those
 VA> letters! What Linux distribution do you use?

wilnux5:/etc # cat os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.1"
VERSION_ID="42.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:42.1"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"

(Yes, it's old ;-))

 VA> Do you need help with locale generation?

I think I found out how to do this on my system.

First I used my systems package manager to install: "glibc-i18ndata - Database Sources for 'locale'"

Afterwards this command ran without any output:

# localedef --no-archive -f IBM850 -i en_US en_US.CP850
#

And this directory was created with contents:

/usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850

And 'locale -a -v' now shows:
....
locale: en_US           directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    title | English locale for the USA
   source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
    email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
 language | English
territory | USA
 revision | 1.0
     date | 2000-06-24
  codeset | ISO-8859-1

locale: en_US.cp850     directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    title | English locale for the USA
   source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  address | http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
    email | bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
 language | English
territory | USA
 revision | 1.0
     date | 2000-06-24
  codeset | IBM850
....

But golded output is borked now, in my current utf-8 configured putty terminal:

https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2a5c7f2fbdc4

It doesn't matter if I use luit or not, they are displayed the same.
Also the ~A characters for messages with CHRS: CP437 in the german areas are still there.

And this is still the same:

https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/f3961b7ea085


Bye, Wilfred.

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