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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Strip high bit(MSKERMIT)
Date: 21 Dec 1994 22:18:49 GMT
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In article <CHANG.94Dec16183135@theta.math.wsu.edu>,
Ching Mo Chang <chang@theta.math.wsu.edu> wrote:
>Did MSKERMIT has the option to set "strip high bit" off?
>
>To view chinese characters on line in an 8 bit chinese dos system, I can
>use com program like Telix with the "strip high bit" off option, but in
>MSKERMIT(3.14 b14), using the 8bit option defined in mskermit.ini, I just
>got some strange characters (same as I use Telix with "strip high bit" on).
>
MS-DOS Kermit does not explicitly support Chinese characters, but it does
support Japanese Kanji. Depending on the PC and host encodings for Chinese,
maybe the Japanese Kanji support might work for Chinese too. The Japanese
Kanji support in MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 assumes Code Page 982 ("Shift-JIS") on
the PC, and different variations of JIS X 0208 on the host. JIS X 0208 is
similar to Chinese CAS GB 2312-80.
Your other alternative, if you are running CC-DOS (Chinese DOS) is a special
Chinese edition of an old version of MS-DOS Kermit, 2.32A, by Quanfang Zhang
of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou (see "Kermit in China", Kermit News #5,
July 1993). You can find it on kermit.columbia.edu. The text files are in
kermit/c/cc*.*, and binaries are in kermit/bin/cc*.exe.
Naturally, we would like to see true Chinese support integrated into the
new version MS-DOS Kermit; it should be fairly easy given the existing Kanji
support. But it would require a DOS programmer with a knowledge of Chinese
writing and character sets, and access to Chinese-model PCs.
- Frank