C H A R A C T E R   T R A N S L A T I O N

    GoldED implements several different proposals for character
    translation in imported and exported messages:

        FSC-0050 "Charset Identifier"  Thomas Sundblom       2:201/114
        FSC-0051 "I51"                 Thomas Gradin         2:200/108
        FSC-0054 "CHARSET proposal"    Duncan McNutt         2:243/100
        No FSC   "Composed Characters" Andre van de Wijdeven 2:500/131

    FSC-0050 is currently implemented in the OPMED 3.00 message
    editor, and will be implemented in Opus 1.20. It uses the same
    identifier as FSC-0054 (a ^aCHARSET kludge), but is a lot simpler
    (but not nescessarily better).

    The "I51" and "CHARSET" proposals are in the process of being
    merged to one proposal, which will combine the advantages of both.
    They are both based on using the LATIN-1 (also known as ISO
    8859-1) character set for extended ASCII. The LATIN-1 set is the
    set used by Windows 3, Amiga and many other non-PC computers. In
    addition to LATIN-1, I51 defines a set of escape sequences for
    characters not found in the LATIN-1 set.

    Composed Characters has become quite popular in Holland, but the
    author has decided to drop his proposal because it relies on
    escape sequences using the so called "soft-cr" (141d, 8Dh)
    character. GoldED will continue to support Composed as long as it
    seems nescessary.

    If you want to know more about the details, I suggest you read the
    proposals or contact the authors.

    GoldED currently(*) uses two types of translation tables:

        (*) = NOTHING IS FINAL YET. The implementation is still on the
        testing stage, and later versions of GoldED will PROBABLY use
        different formats for these tables. So don't spend a lot of
        time reworking the tables - leave them as they are.