Q: How does KoalaTerm support my native character set?.
A: KoalaTerm works with localized Windows 95 and Windows NT system to support international character set.
Because the host system you are connecting to may not use the same character set as Windows system, KoalaTerm provide code translating between different character sets. When you input a character on PC keyboard, KoalaTerm picks up its code in PC character set, then translates it to the code according to host system character set, and send to the host. When KoalaTerm receives a character from the host system, it translates the code in host character set to code in PC character set, and displays the PC code on Windows screen.
While KoalaTerm automatically detects the character set of Windows system, you have to tell KoalaTerm the character sets used by your host system and applications on the host system.
There are three character sets in General page of Setting dialog. You may need to do some experiment to figure them out. The National Replacement Set should be set to United States (ASCII), unless you are using some kind of application following DEC NRC specification. You may have to try different choices for Supplemental Sets.
Currently KoalaTerm provide code translating for major Latin character sets including ISO 8859-1, 8859-2, 8859-3, 8859-4, ISO Cyrillic set (8859-5), ISO Greek set (8859-7) and DEC supplemental set.
If you need a specific character set and have complete code table for it, we would like to add additional character set support if possible. Please write to support@Midasoft.com to details.