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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