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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Diacriticals???How???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.115034.5963@ais.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:50:34 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.174918.7456@gw.wmich.edu>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1993Jan25.174918.7456@gw.wmich.edu>, 92anderson@gw.wmich.edu writes:
- >
- > I have a problem.... how does one implement diacriticals (those funny-
- > looking foreign marks/letters) on a vax/vms?
- >
- > Everytime I switch to a foreign keyboard set, and login to the system, it
- > reverts back to usa.
-
- What kind of terminal (or PC terminal emulator) are you using? What
- does your comm link look like? Other settings on either the terminal
- emulator or on VMS? It's not obvious from your article what you're
- doing wrong; VMS (even the US version) certainly does support multi-
- national characters. My guess is that you're doing one of the following
- things wrong:
-
- 1) You are connected to the system over a 7-bit data line. Most
- programs expect to be able to send multinational characters
- over an 8-bit data path. In this case you should be able to
- use the accented characters if you set up your comm line to
- use 8-bit data (8-bit characters in the setup on your terminal
- end and SET TERM /EIGHTBIT to VMS; or you may be able to do
- SET TERM /FALLBACK in VMS. This last approach will depend on
- whether the terminal fallback facility (TFF) is active and how
- your applications do I/O to the terminal; depending on your
- VAX's exact setup it may or may not work. (Try looking at
- HELP SET TERM /FALLBACK and HELP SET TERM /EIGHTBIT).
-
- 2) You are not using the DEC Multinational character set nor the
- ISO Latin-1 character set as an 8-bit set, but are trying to
- use one of the alternative left-hand code pages that replace
- the square brackets and other characters with a small number
- of accented characters. It's possible that some software on
- the VAX is explicitly setting your left-hand code page (maybe
- because you have US ASCII as your power-up condiiton on your
- terminal and something on the VAX is sending a reset sequence
- to your terminal). In this case, try either setting up your
- keyboard after you're logged into the VAX and see if that works
- any better; or try using one of the 8-bit character sets that
- I mentioned above, these give you a much wider selection of
- accented characters and are supported by more printers than the
- various national left-hand code pages.
-
- If neither of these things work, tell us exactly what software you're
- using and exactly how it's set up and what you're doing that causes
- the problem.
-
- Bruce C. Wright
-