Subj : charset mapping
To   : Gerrit Kuehn
From : Robert Bashe
Date : Thu Nov 03 2016 07:05:16

Gerrit Kuehn wrote to * on Thursday November 03 2016 at 06:44:

GK> After a very, very long time I took a look into timed again (timedunx
GK> under FreeBSD here, to be more precise). Looks like I got it more or
GK> less working, but I'm still struggeling with getting character
GK> translation for German Umlauts (ö?^n+-n~) right. Reading them in other
GK> people's mails looks ok, but I cannot write them properly. They get
GK> translated into something wrong (as you may see above). I tried both
GK> the included readmap/writmap for ibmpc and latin1, but both produce
GK> wrong characters. The makemaps program appears to be absent. Any
GK> hints?

I had the same problem when I tried to use GoldED Lnx under Linux. The problam 
appeared to result from the fact that GoldED has it's own character 
translations, and the program itself is a console probgram and thus depends on 
the console settings. The two sets of settings, operating at the same time, 
apparently caused the problem you mention.

The only solution I found was to use MsgED instead of GoldED. For reasons 
unknown, that allowed me to both read and write all the special characters in 
German without problems. Unfortunately, MsgED was simply too primitive for my 
taste, and so I finally abandoned my attempts.

Something similar may be happening to you with TimED and BSD. The only way I 
could - almost - fix this was to adjust the GoldED internal character set to 
try to match that of the console set under Linux, and even that didn't work for 
the Esszet.

So I wish you luck, but unfortunately can't offer any fast and sure methods for 
fixing this particular problem.

Cheers, Bob

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