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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Viewing man page on Linux RedHat makes screen go blank
Date: 25 Mar 2004 15:08:11 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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On 2004-03-25, Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
: ...
: A vt220 interprets codes in the range 128-159 as control characters.
: UTF-8 encoding uses those as continuation-bytes.
:
: Setting LANG to en_US (e.g., an ISO-8859-1) would probably work better.
: I gather that kermit can handle UTF-8, but don't know what's involved
: in setting it up (but it should be visible in the config-settings).
:
Kermit 95 has a little character-set selection box on its toolbar.
It says "latin1-iso" by default (at least for VT terminal emulation).
Click on the little arrow to open the list of character sets and select
"utf8".
When Kermit's terminal character-set is UTF8, it decodes the UTF8 before
parsing control codes or escape sequences (this might be backwards in
terms of ISO layering, but there's no other choice).
For a quick sanity check, FTP a copy of this file:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/charsets/glass.utf8
to the computer that you connect to with Kermit (it's only 1313 bytes long)
and then 'cat' it. You should see somthing akin to this:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/glass2.gif
I'm not sure what effect the host's LANG variable would have on any of this.
None I hope! The only things you should have to watch out for are:
. Make sure Kermit's terminal type agrees with the host TERM variable.
. Make sure Kermit's terminal character-set matches what the host sends.
- Frank