Hello Dennis!

29 Nov 24 07:34, you wrote to me:

Thanmks for you thorough answer.

 DS> Hello David!

 DS> 28 Nov 24 17:44, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 DG>> sbbs@bbs:~$ LANG=es_ES.ISO8859-1 luit -encoding 'ISO-8859-2'
 DG>> gedlnx -C/home/sbbs/ Command 'luit' not found, did you mean:
 DG>> command 'quit' from snap quit (1.0+git) command 'lfit' from deb
 DG>> fitsh

 DS> if luit cannot be found you have to install it
 DS> as far as I know luit is part of x11-utils

 DS> luit is not a standalone package in most modern Debian or Ubuntu
 DS> distributions. It is part of the X.Org project and typically included
 DS> in the x11-utils package.

 DS> apt install x11-utils

sbbs@bbs:~$ sudo apt search x11-utils
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
x11-utils/noble,now 7.7+6build2 amd64 [installed]
  X11 utilities

 DS> Hoever in my tests and in my terminal this was not a solution for your
 DS> issue to fix it I had to add (I use fidian with goldED, which is ran
 DS> under tmux and ttyd) (as per example):

 DS> Environment=LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 DS> Environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 DS> Environment=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I read about tmux and a 4 window layout for SBBS, but that's new to me, so not gonna even ask.

 DS> Without it a lot of things went wrong on display with my Debian ..
 DS> with this .. its working ok btw . .sometimes you have to reboot and/or
 DS> logout/login to make it work correctly.

 DS> But in general above would even not solve the issue

 DG>>   X terminal emulator

 DG>> Whatever the error I'm making... I cannot seem to find it

 DS> It's difficult as a number of settings can cause golded not to
 DS> function properly with its display

 DS> if in your normal shell you still get the qqqqqq your standard
 DS> encoding within your shell is not ok But .. you have to take care on
 DS> the config

 DS> for instance I start my golded from a bin/bash script, but when I do
 DS> not use

 DS>     export TERM=screen.xterm-256color

I do get aline layout, meaningn no "qqqq"

 DS> this line .. I do not get the 'lines' but I get the qqqqqqq ..

 DS> so please first try to get it running correctly without Luit . .as
 DS> that should be possible eliminate as much encoding/decoding stuff as
 DS> that could cause issues ..

 DS> Try to make a bin/bash to make encoding sometimes easier rather than
 DS> being busy with .bashrc etc. but I do not know how well experienced
 DS> you are in linux. (On certain levels I lack serious knowledge, so I
 DS> try a lot of things and I also sometimes use chatgpt or co-pilot to
 DS> check what direction to go ..

When you said regular shell, you meant alinux virtual console, I tried that with the ones proxmox show VC, I gues it was called, well, no lines but "qqqq", so that must be some encoding orXKAT thing and No, as I said before I cannot call myself Lnux guru in any way, I know some commands, but I said that before and gained some hate, so...

 DS> not always direct an answer but it gives you guidelines/hints/tips you
 DS> could try.

I have not gone that path because I was in doubt CGP would even know about Fido, golded, but I guess If I feed it the right links I could do something

 DS> Dennis

Thanks again!.

 DS> ... I don't troubleshoot; I blame the vendor.
 DS> --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240309