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    From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to All on Sun Jan 1 21:25:55 2023
    Two articles about "Training Golded to play UTF-8" were published in the FidoNews in 2020, written by Michiel van der Vlist.

    In the second one (Volume 37, Number 18 - 04 May 2020) he explained a way to add partial, limited UTF-8 support to GoldEd+ without the need for an external editor. ( http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/fidonews/myarticles/goldutf2.art )

    This works if you use CP850 (e.g. Windows) and requires a couple translation tables that you can download from Michiel's website:

    http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/850_utf8.chs http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/utf8_850.chs

    (plus the corresponding XLAT* lines in GoldEd's configuration, as explained in the article)

    ...

    I have made some changes to the utf8_850.chs file, so that it has support for:

    - the inverted question mark (¿), instead of the lowercase 'y' with diaeresis (thanks Michiel ;-))
    - the lowercase 'a' with tilde (ã), instead of the British pound sign
    - the lowercase 'a' with ring above (Ã¥), instead of the Yen sign

    and thus have better support for more western European languages (Spanish, Portuguese, etc).

    If you're interested you can download it here: http://www.cyberiada.org/fido/files/utf8_850.chs

    Carlos

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: cyberiada point (2:341/234.1)
  • From Carlos Navarro@2:341/234.1 to All on Sun Jan 1 21:29:55 2023
    Two articles about "Training Golded to play UTF-8" were published in
    the FidoNews in 2020, written by Michiel van der Vlist.

    In the second one (Volume 37, Number 18 - 04 May 2020) he explained a
    way to add partial, limited UTF-8 support to GoldEd+ without the need
    for an external editor. ( http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/fidonews/myarticles/goldutf2.art )
    [...]

    Linux users may be interested in using these translation tables for iso-8859-1:

    http://www.cyberiada.org/fido/files/iso_utf8.chs http://www.cyberiada.org/fido/files/utf8_iso.chs

    (The first one is the same as iso1_u8.chs from GoldEd+ GitHub repo, but with a small change to have the correct level in the CHRS kludge. The second one is based on Michiel's utf8_850.chs, but with the translation codes for iso-8859-1 instead of codepage 850.)

    The XLAT* lines in GoldEd's configuration would be like:

    XLATLOCALSET LATIN-1
    XLATCHARSET LATIN-1 UTF-8 iso_utf8.chs
    XLATCHARSET UTF-8 LATIN-1 utf8_iso.chs

    You should set your terminal to iso-8859-1 before launching the editor.

    Carlos

    --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: cyberiada point (2:341/234.1)