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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: telnetting & international character sets
Date: 17 Nov 1999 20:59:54 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <3832DA08.1CDCEFAD@x9media.com>,
Frank Joerdens <frank@x9media.com> wrote:
: When telnetting from one Linux box to another I cannot get the
: international characters to work properly. When logged in at the console
: on either box, I can display those characters just fine (German
: umlauts), but not in a telnet session. How do you control this behaviour
: with the Linux telnet program?
:
Different computers and applications can use different encodings for the
same characters. Most Telnet clients do not care about this, and so your
Umlaute turn into Abf�lle.
It can even happen between two Linuxes, in which the local encoding might
be (say) PC Code Page 850, but the xterm window uses ISO 8859-1 Latin
Alphabet 1.
Use a telnet client that knows about character sets, such as C-Kermit:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck70.html
If my guess about the character sets was correct, you would give it these
commands:
eightbit
set terminal character-set cp850 latin1
telnet <hostname>
This means: use 8-bit data paths between the two computers, convert
between CP850 on the remote computer and Latin-1 on the local one, and
make a Telnet connection from the local to the remote.
- Frank