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@CHRS: KOI8-R 2
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@TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-07-03
Hello Wilfred.
25 Mar 24 09:01, you wrote to me:
VA>> You need to install or generate this locale and GoldEd will show
VA>> those letters! What Linux distribution do you use?
WvV> wilnux5:/etc # cat os-release
WvV> NAME="openSUSE Leap"
WvV> VERSION="42.1"
WvV> VERSION_ID="42.1"
WvV> PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)"
WvV> ID=opensuse
WvV> ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
WvV> CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:42.1"
WvV> BUG_REPORT_URL="
https://bugs.opensuse.org"
WvV> HOME_URL="
https://opensuse.org/"
WvV> ID_LIKE="suse"
WvV> (Yes, it`s old ;-))
Got it. Not too old for FidoNet. :)
VA>> Do you need help with locale generation?
WvV> I think I found out how to do this on my system.
WvV> First I used my systems package manager to install: "glibc-i18ndata -
WvV> Database Sources for `locale`"
WvV> Afterwards this command ran without any output:
WvV> # localedef --no-archive -f IBM850 -i en_US en_US.CP850
WvV> #
WvV> And this directory was created with contents:
WvV> /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850
WvV> And `locale -a -v` now shows:
WvV> ...
WvV> locale: en_US directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US
WvV> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
WvV> ---------
WvV> title | English locale for the USA
WvV> source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
WvV> address |
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
WvV> email |
bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
WvV> language | English
WvV> territory | USA
WvV> revision | 1.0
WvV> date | 2000-06-24
WvV> codeset | ISO-8859-1
WvV> locale: en_US.cp850 directory: /usr/lib/locale/en_US.cp850
WvV> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
WvV> ---------
WvV> title | English locale for the USA
WvV> source | Free Software Foundation, Inc.
WvV> address |
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
WvV> email |
bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
WvV> language | English
WvV> territory | USA
WvV> revision | 1.0
WvV> date | 2000-06-24
WvV> codeset | IBM850
WvV> ...
This is what you need. Good.
WvV> But golded output is borked now, in my current utf-8 configured putty
WvV> terminal:
WvV>
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/2a5c7f2fbdc4
This is exactly how I saw it on my computer, when was using
pseudo-graphics with wrong or missing locale.
WvV> It doesn`t matter if I use luit or not, they are displayed the same.
WvV> Also the ~A characters for messages with CHRS: CP437 in the german
WvV> areas are still there.
WvV> And this is still the same:
WvV>
https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/f3961b7ea085
This looks like locale is not used. I saw such pictures when Strange.
Do you use latest GoldEd build? Do you still run it with
LANG=en_US.cp850? In some message I saw en_EN.CP850.
Could you also run:
LANG=en_US.cp850 locale
Vitaliy
... 640K ought to be enough for anybody
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