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                     Using the ISO 8859-1 ("Latin-1") charset


     This chapter describes  how to setup  GoldED to use  the ISO 8859-1
     character set in all or selected mail areas.

     The ISO 8859-1 character set seems to be the preferred standard for
     accented (highbit) characters in the Internet. It is also basically
     the same character set used in MS-Windows (code page 1252) and  the
     Amiga.

     Add the  following lines  to the  Random System  groups you want to
     setup charset translation  for. They can  also be used  globally in
     the main configuration if you want to ISO 8859-1 to be the  default
     character set for all your mail areas.

        XLATIMPORT LATIN-1
        XLATEXPORT LATIN-1

     XLATIMPORT/EXPORT are used to translate characters to and from  the
     IBM PC 8-bit (above ASCII) character set.

     The following lines need to be added to the main configuration:

        XLATPATH <path to the .CHS files>

     If your codepage is CP437 or CP865, use these two:

        XLATCHARSET IBMPC     LATIN-1   IBM_ISO.CHS
        XLATCHARSET LATIN-1   IBMPC     ISO_IBM.CHS

     Or if your codepage is CP850, use these three:

        XLATCHARSET CP850     LATIN-1   850_ISO.CHS
        XLATCHARSET LATIN-1   CP850     ISO_850.CHS
        XLATLOCALSET CP850

     The two .CHS files  must be present in  the XLATPATH. You can  find
     them in the XLAT archive inside the advanced setup archive.

     GoldED will put a kludge ^aCHRS LATIN-1 2 or ^aCHARSET LATIN-1 2
     into your messages so  that other mail readers can  translate to
     their native character set if necessary.

     That's it.