Subj : Need volonteers to test another patch
To   : Vitaliy Aksyonov
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Mar 10 2024 02:56 pm

On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 18:49:34 -0700, Vitaliy Aksyonov -> Wilfred Van
Velzen wrote:


VA> Golded cannot read from UTF-8. There is no Unicode support. You must
VA> use another editor or GoldEd with external editor to work with
VA> Unicode.

VA> It may convert from one-byte charsets to UTF-8, but not vise versa.

We know it is unsupported, but I'm pretty sure I've said multiple times
it can display in Golded just fine, with CHRS kludge, UTF-8 Cyrillic
characters (MANY other characters display fine, also):

https://pharcyde.org/golded-utf8.png

It indeed can be done. The problem is everyone's terminals and what else is being used to run golded is different in every case.

Regards,
Nick

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