Subj : Re: ANSI & ASCII w/ Golded
To   : deon
From : Jay Harris
Date : Tue Dec 12 2023 07:06 pm

On Wednesday December 13 2023, deon said the following...

 >> I have golded setup & going in Linux and it's working great, except
 >> that ANSI & High ASCII aren't displaying properly:
 >>
 >> https://ibb.co/Nn7sQCM

 de> This may be a kludge CHRS related issue - or that golded cant display
 de> high ansi?

This seems to be a GoldED thing.  Messages display fine in Mystic for me with Netrunner.

 de> On other messages (I guess in the ADS echo), does it show high ansi?

 de> (I recall that when messages have "UTF-8 4", depending on the reader
 de> high ansi messages dont display well - but havent looked further than
 de> that.)

 de> When clrghouz responds to a message, I re-use the CHRS kludge that the
 de> original message came with. (Since I display the original message with
 de> some additional (high) ansi chars - I've assumed this would be OK.) If
 de> the original message doesnt come with a CHRS kludge, I use "CP437 2".

GoldED seems to read/use the CHRS kludge.  I had messages from Clearing Houz displaying OK with the CP437 2 kludge but the ASCII 1 messages were still somewhat garbled.  Playing around with my golded.cfg it now displays both ok.

I used some guidance from:
https://fidopedia.fido.de/index.php?title=Golded_cfg

And made some adjustments to add in the UTF-8 lines.

XLATPATH /home/ubuntu/.golded/charset/

INCLUDE /home/ubuntu/.golded/charsets.cfg

XLATCHARSET AUTO        CP437       437_437.chs

XLATCHARSET CP437       IBMPC       850_ibm.chs
XLATCHARSET CP437       LATIN-1     850_iso.chs
XLATCHARSET CP437       UTF-8       437_u8.chs
XLATCHARSET CP850       IBMPC       850_ibm.chs
XLATCHARSET CP850       LATIN-1     850_iso.chs
XLATCHARSET CP850       UTF-8       850_u8.chs
XLATCHARSET LATIN-1     UTF-8       iso1_u8.chs
; wrong but working
XLATCHARSET CP866       IBMPC       866_850.chs
XLATCHARSET LATIN-1     IBMPC       iso_ibm.chs
XLATCHARSET LATIN-1     LATIN-1     iso_iso.chs
XLATCHARSET MAC         IBMPC       mac_ibm.chs

XLATIMPORT CP437
XLATEXPORT UTF-8
XLATLOCALSET LATIN-1


Even with these, BBS Ads still look like this:

https://ibb.co/fdy8X3k


Jay

.... I wouldn't buy anything with velcro. It's a total rip-off
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