Subj : another utf-8 test
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sat May 01 2021 11:30:40

Hello Carlos,

On Saturday May 01 2021 10:41, you wrote to you:

 CN>> So it seems that the utf8_850.chs I am using (Michiel's) is
 CN>> missing some characters?

 CN> Replying to myself...
 CN> I suppose that I should add to the file any missing characters I
 CN> need...

As mentioned before, Golded has very limited support for UTF-8. Golded can only handle 8 bit characters internally and so some tricks and shorcuts are needed to to make it work at all. The translation from the native character set (CP850 in our case) to UTF-8 is 100% OK, but the translation from UTF-8 to CP850  only works correctly for the range U+00C0 - U+00FF. As mentioned in the prolog of of the file. This works for most of the umlauted and accented characters in use in the western world, but it does not cover the inverted exclamation mark end the inverted question mark as in use in Spanish.

You can make it work for some other 64 block of characters than U+00C0-00FF by editing the file, but that will give you other errors. Sorry, this is as good as it gets for now.



Cheers, Michiel

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