Do not use UTF-8 locale for GoldEd. You shall either use some one-byte charset for GoldEd or run it under luit/screen.
something like:
LANG=it_IT.cp850 luit -encoding cp850 gedlnx -C/path/to/your/config
^^^^^________________^^^^^ - those shall be your locale. I'm not sure which one used in Italy.
or configure you terminal to use that locale and run golded directly without luit.
luit may be more convenient, because you don't need to mess with terminal settings.
FB> This is the golded.cfg part for the charcter encoding:
FB> // Path where the *.ESC and *.CHS files can be found.
FB> Xlatpath /home/bizzi/husky/golded/charset/
FB> XLATCHARSET CP850 UTF-8 850_UTF8.CHS
This line may work, ant you may even see messages in your Unicode terminal, but see what's happens next...
FB> XLATCHARSET UTF-8 CP850 UTF8_850.CHS
GoldEd cannot convert from multibyte encodings. This line is useless. I'm also wondering where did you get UTF8_850.CHS file? It doesn't exist in GoldEd distribution.
FB> GROUP UTF8
FB> xlatimport utf-8
xlatimport is used for messages which doesn't have kludge CHRS or CHARSET. And even if then it's useless, because GoldEd can't convert from UTF-8.
FB> member utf-8
FB> xlatexport utf-8
This might work depending on what xlatlocalset you have.
FB> origin UTF-8 enthousiast
FB> ENDGROUP
FB> If I start golded from a xfce terminal the accented characters shows
FB> as a double "?" with inverted color.
FB> If I start golded from putty with the ISO-8859-1 charcter encoding I
FB> see the correct characters in golded, but all other people see garbage
FB> in my messages.
Most of the European echoes uses cp437. You better set your xlatexport to cp437.
FB> The golded configuration is taken from a well know article by Michiel
FB> van der Vlist : "Training Golded to play UTF-8", so I suppose it
FB> should be right. :)
FB> Any hint? :)
Don't mess with UTF-8. It's not supported even if it "works" for some. Use one-byte charset and you'll have no issues.
Vitaliy
... 640K ought to be enough for anybody
--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240305-beta
* Origin: Aurora, Colorado (1:104/117)
