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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Character-set stories needed
Date: 26 Nov 1994 03:33:37 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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Keywords: Kermit News, Character Sets
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For Kermit News #6, due out soon(er or later), we'd like to collect some
stories, testimonials, quotes, and/or evidence of the usefulness of the
character-set conversion capabilities found in MS-DOS Kermit, C-Kermit,
and IBM Mainframe Kermit.
If you are using these capabilities in terminal connection / emulation
(i.e. CONNECT mode) or in text-mode file transfer, please drop a note via
email to kermit@columbia.edu and let us know. We'd like to hear from
everybody, but we'd especially like to hear from people in Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union about the Latin-2 and Cyrillic capabilities, since we
have received, until now, so little feedback on these: how do people in the
Czech Republic or Poland or Hungary deal with the incompatibility of Code
Page 852 and ISO Latin-2 in their data communications if not with Kermit?
How do Russians, Bielorussians, Ukranians, and Bulgarians convert among the
KOI8, Short KOI, ISO Latin/Cyrillic, DKOI, etc, encodings for Cyrillic text
if not with Kermit?
We know, for example, that Russian newsgroups are in KOI8, but Russian PCs
use "Alternative Cyrillic" a.k.a. CP866 -- MS-DOS Kermit and C-Kermit handle
this fine, although the complete package -- fonts, keyboard drivers, complete
mappings, etc -- was not included in the basic package until version 3.14.
What about Poland -- I see there are some pl.* Polish newsgroups, but I can't
get access to them from here. What character sets are used, etc?
But like I said, more commonplace stories are welcome too, from Western
Europe, Latin America, Canada -- anywhere. Japan and Israel are pretty well
covered, but if are using Kermit's Hebrew and Kanji capabilities and we
haven't heard from you, feel free to jump in!
And if you have any other Amazing Stories involving Kermit software, send
them in too -- get published!
Thanks.
- Frank