Subj : another utf-8 test
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun May 02 2021 10:18:13

Hello Carlos,

On Sunday May 02 2021 08:24, you wrote to me:

 CN> - Reading is ok except for some characters commonly used in Spanish (á
 CN> ? ú ø ...) - Writing (and exporting) is ok but when I read my posted
 CN> messages those characters are not displayed properly - When replying,
 CN> those characters get mangled up in the quoted text

To properly display the inverted exclamation mark and the inverted question mark you can edit the utf8_850.chs file as follows:

Replace this line:

\0 \xA0         ; 225 00E1 latin small letter a with acute

by:

\0 \xAD         ; 225 00E1 Inverted exclamation mark.

And this line:

\0 \x98         ; 255 00FF latin small letter y with diaeresis

by:

\0 \xA8         ; 255 00FF Inverted question mark.


But if you do that the small a with acute and the smal y with diaresis will not display properly. The y with diaresis will not be missed, but the a acute may be a problem for you. It is a trade off...

The proper solution would be a rewrite of Golded to use Unicode internally. But that may be a bridge too far.




Cheers, Michiel

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