Subj : another utf-8 test
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sat May 01 2021 21:52:25

01 May 21 11:30, you wrote to me:

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

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

Ok, I get it. Thank you for your explanation.

These two characters, especially the (inverted) opening question mark, are necessary in Spanish. So, right now Golded with utf-8 is not a good choice for writing. However it's nice that we can at least read utf-8 messages properly thanks to your other .chs file.

Carlos
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