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- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1991 20:14:12 EDT
- From: Christine M Gianone <cmg@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Character Set Files and Utilities
- Keywords: Character Set Files and Utilities, PostScript, Cyrillic
-
- A new directory has been set up on watsun only: kermit/charsets. The files
- in this directory are not part of the normal Kermit distribution, and they do
- not follow the normal naming conventions. But they should prove useful to
- Kermit users who want to use or learn about text files containing national
- and international characters.
-
- Included in the kermit/charsets directory are character set tables for many
- character sets, which include the character names, values in decimal, octal,
- hex, and row/column notation, and the 8-bit character values themselves.
- Most of these tables (e.g. cp437.txt, cp850.txt, latin1.txt, next.txt, etc)
- were produced by C programs (cp437.c, cp850.c, etc), so if you can't transfer
- the 8-bit text successfully, get the corresponding C program, compile it, and
- run it to recreate the character set table.
-
- Also included is a program, textps, for converting plain text containing
- 8-bit characters to PostScript. The original file can be in any of several
- character sets including Latin-1, various IBM code pages, Apple QuickDraw,
- NeXT, DEC MCS, etc. You can use this program on any UNIX system, MS-DOS,
- VAX/VMS, and any other computer that has a C compiler and supports the idea
- of standard input and output redirection. Thanks to Frank da Cruz for the
- character set programs, tables, and the textps program.
-
- Finally, the files cp866.doc and cp866.uue contain a Cyrillic code page
- (real Cyrillic characters) you can use on your PC if it has an EGA or higher
- and DOS 3.30 or higher. This was contributed by Dimitri Vulis of the City
- University of New York. cp866.doc tells how to install the code page.
-
- Once your Cyrillic code page is installed, you can display cp866.txt (the
- Cyrillic code page table) on your screen locally from DOS, you can use DOS
- applications to create and view Cyrillic files, etc. MS-DOS Kermit 3.10 and
- later supports CP866 as a file transfer character set, and you can also use
- your Cyrillic code page during during terminal emulation with any of three
- commonly used Cyrillic host character sets: ISO 8859-5, KOI-8, or Short KOI.
- Kermit initialization files, from Konstantin Vinogradov of the International
- Centre for Scientific and Technical Information in Moscow, are provided for
- this purpose in the files kermit/charsets/*.ini.
-
- The organization and naming of the files in this area is subject to change.
- Meanwhile, additional contributions to this collection of character set
- tables and utilities are most welcome.
-