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Article: 13157 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: onions@kr01.piahost.net (onions)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] local echo again: K95 on Win98
Date: 24 Jan 2002 17:50:39 -0800
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Thanks. I installed Win98 SE with locale English and tested K95.
It works fine.
onions@kr01.piahost.net
>
> That is the differnce. The Windows 98 system had a default locale of
> a Western keyboard. From:
>
> ftp://ftp.kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/k95/newbugs.txt
>
> 620. Kermit 95 does not accept keyboard input on CJK Windows 95/98
>
> CJK versions of Windows 95/98 do not (by default) install an Input
> Locale which supports any of the Latin Code Pages (CP 1250-1258).
> Since the Windows 95/98 Console mode does not support Unicode K95
> must perform translations of all keyboard events to one of the
> Latin Code Pages. Without a translation table all keyboard events
> return error values and K95 is unable to process keyboard input.
>
> In 1.1.20 and earlier, if an Input Locale for English, German, French,
> ... is installed it will still appear that input cannot be processed
> since the default Input Locale (CJK) does not include the Latin
> alphabet. Pressing Left Alt-Shift one or more times until the Latin
> language Input Locale is selected will allow for proper processing of
> keyboard input.
>
> 1.1.21 and later will support the following behavior:
>
> . K95 will test each installed Input Locale until it finds one
> that is able to translate the letter 'a'. When it finds one
> that can, it stops and uses that Input Locale as the default
> for the session.
>
> . if no input locales are available that can properly translate
> the letter 'a'; Kermit 95 will terminate with an error message
> stating that an Input Locale must be installed.
>
> . K95 only performs this test if a user presses a key. This way
> if K95 is being run from a script or using stdin the test is
> never performed.
>
> Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!!
> The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP and HTTP
> http://www.kermit-project.org/ secured with Kerberos, SRP, and
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