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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: extended ASCII characters
Date: 16 Nov 1995 19:19:28 GMT
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In article <48fjt3$3ct@milo.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca>,
David Stow <dastow@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca> wrote:
: Could anyone tell me how to make the termainal emulator display
: characters 128-256 of the ISO Latin 1 set? I've set the display to 8-bit
: and terminal character-set to Latin-1 but I still see only the ASCII
: characters that correspond to (number of the character I expect) - 128 on
: my screen. (For example, I get "i" where I would expect "e" with an
: acute accent.)
:
So then this must be MS-DOS Kermit, right? What version? The current
version is 3.14.
Proper display of many different character sets is an integral feature of
MS-DOS Kermit. The mechanics are explained in detail in Chapter 13 of
the manual, "Using MS-DOS Kermit".
Is Kermit's PARITY set to NONE?
Assuming it is, then it sounds like you have set up Kermit correctly
(check with SHOW TERMINAL), so I expect that the host is simply not
sending all 8 bits. It is likely that you need to give a command at the
host to make it stop chopping off the 8th bit. The exact format of the
command would depend on the host. In SunOS it would be "stty pass8". In
VMS, "set terminal/eight", and so on. If you are going through a terminal
server, it too might need some command for 8-bit transparency.
: When I look at files I've transfered with the type command, I see the
: IBM graphics character for the character number I expected (in the
: 128-256 range). I'm using the VT102 emulation on an XT computer.
:
How do you mean "transfered with the type command"? You mean you used
LOG SESSION on the PC to capture a file that you typed on the host?
This raises two questions:
1. Why not use Kermit protocol to transfer the file? This will handle
the character-set conversion for you.
2. Why do you get 8-bit characters in your log file if you don't see them
on your screen? This one is a puzzle, and I can't offer any hints
without a more detailed report.
- Frank