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- From: jody@lib.haifa.ac.il (Yosef Branse)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VT220 and VT320 Key codes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.131844.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:18:44 GMT
- References: <930117225018.21e04331@HANNA2.NLU.EDU> <1993Jan18.214243.5943@ais.com>
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- Organization: Haifa University Library
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- In article <1993Jan18.214243.5943@ais.com>, bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- writes:
-
- > As I recall the big differences between the VT220 and the VT320 are that
- > the VT320 added support for ISO Latin-1 (the VT220 only had the DEC
- > Multinational character set) and for a 25th status line. There are
- > also differences in the format of the downloaded (soft) character sets,
-
- One practical difference between the VT220 and 320 that I am aware of is the
- ability of the 320 (and 420) to load soft fonts, at least as they are used by
- Aleph, the standard system for online catalogs in Israeli university libraries
- (and some others). Thus, we can display bibliographic information for Arabic
- books in legible Arabic characters only on VT320 and VT420 terminals (and
- compatibles) but not VT220 and below. In addition, the soft fonts are used for
- Hebrew characters in cases where the terminal does not have the Hebrew chip
- standard on terminals in Israel.
-
- The terminals we have can display Cyrillic as well, though we don't use it.
-
- Of course, if you don't need to work with more than one character set, this
- will not be relevant for you, but it does point out the difference between the
- two classes of terminals.
-
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