MK> Whoa! Now there is something seldom seen in a reply to me.
You correctly noticed the presence of the byte order mark. Denial is fultile.
MK> However in this case I *knew* even before you slipped up with the BOM MK> that you were doing some sort of cheat with golded.
Cheat? How so? Why is using notepad as external editor a cheat? And if it is, does not the same apply to using any other external editor, such as nano?
MvdV>> I use Micro$oft's NOTEPAD as external editor
MK> For shame!!! Although it seems to work
It works for me.
MK> there is probably a better way
I would very much prefer to not have to use an external editor at all. I would very much prefer it if Golded's internal editor could do it. Alas, that is not he case (yet).
MK> to do the same without having to manually remove any unwanted leakage.
How so? What do you mean by "unwanted leakage"? That notepad inserts a BOM? What is the problem? A BOM can be useful as a signature to help autodetect UTF-8.
I am familiar with the nano editor. It is part of the Open-WRT package that runs on my Linksys WRT54GL router. I can not say if it is better as external editor for Golded than notepad. I never tried to use it that way.
MK> I know at least one Fidonet sysop using that version, albiet on linux, MK> with golded to accomplish the exact same thing you are doing. The MK> above is a win32 version and doesn't require compilation. I saw some MK> help on how to get it working on XP. Not sure about other windows MK> releases. Anyhow I think that is a better option for getting golded MK> to cooperate with utf-8.
So you have no idea if it actually works at all in a windows setup, but you nevertheless want me to abandon something that works for me, just because you THINK it is better? Hmmm...
MK> If you decide to give it a go I'd appreciate hearing about it, good MK> or bad. I am sure there are other win32 sysops out there that might MK> be highly interested in such a thing. One thing for sure is that MK> their current utf-8 strategy sucks BIG time. ;-)
Sucks? Perhaps. I already mentioned that I would vey much prefer it when an external editor was not needed and Golded could do it all by itself.
That leads me to the following question: Why do you think this is something that needs to be discussed with the FTSC?
I suggest we move the thread about how to make Golded properly do UTF-8 to the Golded echo.
