REPLY: 2:5020/1042.3 7ff0654017b0
MSGID: 1:154/10 6546b010
CHRS: UTF-8 2
TZUTC: -0500
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2023-02-24
Hello golded+,

On Monday October 30 2023 23:53, you wrote to All:

 gi> Legend: (A) Added, (C) Copied, (D) Deleted, (M) Modified, (R) Renamed,
 gi>         (T) Type changed, (U) Unmerged, (X) Unknown, (B) Pairing
 gi> Broken
 gi> ===========================
 gi> Fixed aliases processing.
 gi> Author: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Date: 2023-10-30 14:03:12 -0600
 gi> Committed by: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Files:
 gi> M       golded3/geline.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/gepost.cpp
 gi> ===========================
 gi> fix Codacy issues
 gi> Author: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Date: 2023-10-30 14:03:12 -0600
 gi> Committed by: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Files:
 gi> M       golded3/geline.cpp
 gi> ===========================
 gi> detect zero conversion
 gi> LoadCharset now detects when import and export charsets are the same.
 gi> Restore previous charset will work faster.

 gi> Author: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Date: 2023-10-30 14:03:12 -0600
 gi> Committed by: Vitaliy Aksyonov
 gi> <18148062+vitaliy-aksyonov@users.noreply.github.com>
 gi> Files:
 gi> M       docs/notework.rus
 gi> M       docs/notework.txt
 gi> M       golded.spec
 gi> M       golded3/gecmfd.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/geedit.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/geline.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/gelmsg.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/gemlst.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/gemnus.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/gepost.cpp
 gi> M       golded3/geprot.h
 gi> M       golded3/gesoup.cpp
 gi> M       goldlib/gall/gespell.cpp
 gi> M       srcdate.h
 gi> --- hpt/lnx 1.9.0
 gi>  * Origin: Moscow, Russia (2:5020/1042.3)

Wondering if any one of these commits changed something in regards to a
workaround a small (probably very small) handful of people have been using
since about as far back as I can remember. 

I'm currently using all available conversions (xlatcharset) to utf-8, with:

xlatimport utf-8

This has been swapped back and forth between cp437 and utf-8. It seems most
messages without a CHRS kludge are in the CP437 realm, but having a utf-8
terminal still doesn't display a lot of cp437 characters properly even with
the conversion tables, and I understand why (256 character limit).

xlatexport utf-8
xlatlocalset utf-8

Then I'm using a conversion table simply named utf_utf.chs with the following:

[begin utf_utf.chs]

; This file is a charset conversion module in text form.
;
100000          ; ID number (when >65535, all 255 chars will be translated)
0               ; version number
;
4               ; level number
;
UTF-8
UTF-8
;
END

[end utf_utf.chs]

This was only to trick Golded into using the 'CHRS: UTF-8 4' kludge, otherwise
it would always post with 'CHRS: UTF-8 2', which is basically irrelevant. This
makeshift conversion table doesn't seem to be working any more for that
purpose.

Using tmux with Golded, and an external editor (nano or vim) this has allowed
me to read and write utf-8 messages properly for quite some time (and really,
nothing has changed recently except the CHRS kludge. ;))

I guess, instead of asking for this workaround to work again (if any of the
above has actually done something to break/fix this; however you want to look
at it), maybe I should be asking the question to actually change/fix the issue
instead.

When posting outgoing messages with 'xlatexport utf-8' is there an easy way to
hard code using the proper 'CHRS: UTF-8 4' kludge instead of it using the
level 2 parameter?

Regards,
Nick

... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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