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From: "ralf.strandell" <ralf.strandell@silja.com>
Subject: Translate command does not check the validity of input data?
Message-ID: <ADKY4.78$0C.2466@read2.inet.fi>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:05:52 GMT
Organization: Sonera corp Internet services
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
Hi!
We use the translate command to convert from 7 bit swedish to latin1 or
cp850.
We have applied a temporary bug fix so that translate now works fine...
(set file byte-order big-endian etc )
The input data is supposed to be 7 bit but sometimes it contains a few 8 bit
characters.
The 8 bit characters should not be there, but sometimes they do... It is OK
because they go
throught our unixes etc. intact and finaly return to a pc environment where
they are correct again.
QUESTION:
Kermits translate command seems to drop one bit _without error messages_.
This character is 8 bit 11001000 and after translate it becomes 7 bit
1001000
Is this a feature or a bug or something in between?
It would be a useful and nice feature to check the data and display a
warning is the input data
is invalid, but we can live without it also.
Ralf