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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: kermit for win95 - single byte only?
Date: 7 Dec 1995 13:49:52 GMT
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In article <4a56u6$5pa@hippo.shef.ac.uk>,
Earl H. Kinmonth <cck@kuso.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
>Does kermit for Win95 support all language versions of Win95 or
>is it restricted to English and/or single-byte character set
>languages?
>
>Win95 Japanese is my primary concern....
>
Kermit 95 is presently an English-only application -- as far as the
user interface goes. But...
. It supports conversion of a wide variety of character sets,
including Japanese, as part of the text-mode file-transfer process.
. It supports terminal emulation in a wide variety of single-byte
character sets. There is, at present, no specific provision for
CJK character sets in terminal emulation, but that's on the list of
future enhancements.
Note, however, that if your PC has a Japanese code page (Shift JIS) loaded
and usable in console windows, Kermit 95 might just work with it anyway --
like MS-DOS Kermit works with the GB and Big5 Chinese character sets, even
though it contains no specific code for doing so -- if you "set term byte
8" and "set term character-set transparent". Of course, in this case, you
don't get translation during terminal emulation, but if the remote
computer or service uses Shift-JIS, then you have legible Japanese text
on your screen.
We don't have access to any Japanese Windows 95 systems, so we can't do
more than speculate. So my best advice would be for somebody that does to
try it and report back.
- Frank