Hello Vitaliy!

07 Mar 24 17:08, you wrote to me:

Try to set LANG to cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 and that will solve your issue! No
need to set it for the whole system. Just for golded session.

$ LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 luit -encoding 'ISO-8859-2' ./gedlnx -f

Just did, but no improvement. Would it be possible that old messages are alreadu scrambled and I have to wait for new examples?

Your problem is that luit converts symbols from 8859-2 to UTF, but
ncurses tries to work in UTF-8 mode because you have LANG=cs_CZ.utf8.

I am not sure that is just my XLAT setup or BASH env. Interesting is, that it is only subject (message is OK). What is difference for XLAT in Subj and in Message? Why one UTF-8 is OK a different is not (UTF-8 4 against UFT-8 2)?

And there was another collegue who has same issue (assume different setup).

Karel

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Hello Vitaliy!

09 Mar 24 12:44, you wrote to me:

Could you please make sure that your system actually has such locale?

What does it show if you run:
LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 locale

.. LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 locale
LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_NUMERIC="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_TIME="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_COLLATE="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_MONETARY="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_MESSAGES="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_PAPER="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_NAME="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_ADDRESS="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_TELEPHONE="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_MEASUREMENT="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="cs_CZ.ISO8859-2"
LC_ALL=

Also try to run:
locale -a

.. locale -a | grep cs_CZ
cs_CZ
cs_CZ.iso88592
cs_CZ.utf8

It could be both. Could you please show your xlat setup?

GOLDED is showed as Group B
in cfg (this is the latest, changed also based on the latest advice)

GROUP B
XLATPATH /home/fido/golded/xlat
XLATCHARSET CP437 LATIN-2 asc_il2.chs
XLATCHARSET LATIN-2 CP437 il2_asc.chs
XLATCHARSET CP437 UTF-8 437_u8.chs
XLATIMPORT CP437
XLATIMPORT CP437
XLATLOCALSET LATIN-2
MSGLISTWIDESUBJ YES
ENDGROUP

BTW, luit works for me. Only difference is that my FidoNet charset is KOI8-r.

It is working for me in local, czech echomail.

As for UTF - it's not supported and might "work" if you do some weird setup, but I'd not count on it. Better work in one-byte locales like
cp437 or ISO8859-2 in your case.

Where I am reading, usualy they use English. Then pure ASCII should be enough. And I would be OK even for some exceptional scrambled messages. But why some Subject lines are impacted? I see whole message OK, just that line has copied over 4 bytes. Always the same position.

I totally understand you. I spend several days before my system
started to work OK. Will try to resolve your issues. :)

No problem. Have that since years. I just started to wonder if somebody else can see that. Take is as the lowest prio.

I checked code already, for some "quick win" - but I am not c-guy = nothing found by myself.

Thank you for any help.

Karel

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Hello Karel.

08 Mar 24 07:30, you wrote to me:

Try to set LANG to cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 and that will solve your
issue! No need to set it for the whole system. Just for golded
session.

$ LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 luit -encoding 'ISO-8859-2' ./gedlnx -f

Just did, but no improvement. Would it be possible that old messages
are alreadu scrambled and I have to wait for new examples?

Could you please make sure that your system actually has such locale?

What does it show if you run:
LANG=cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 locale

Also try to run:
locale -a

If it doesn't show that locale - you need to install or generate it. Each linux distro has own way to do it, but that's easy to google.

Your problem is that luit converts symbols from 8859-2 to UTF,
but ncurses tries to work in UTF-8 mode because you have
LANG=cs_CZ.utf8.

I am not sure that is just my XLAT setup or BASH env. Interesting is,
that it is only subject (message is OK). What is difference for XLAT
in Subj and in Message? Why one UTF-8 is OK a different is not (UTF-8
4 against UFT-8 2)?

It could be both. Could you please show your xlat setup?

BTW, luit works for me. Only difference is that my FidoNet charset is KOI8-r.

As for UTF - it's not supported and might "work" if you do some weird setup, but I'd not count on it. Better work in one-byte locales like cp437 or ISO8859-2 in your case.

And there was another collegue who has same issue (assume different setup).

I totally understand you. I spend several days before my system started to work OK. Will try to resolve your issues. :)

Vitaliy

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