[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[jcwoman1963 at hotmail.com]

Here is more info.  I'm using a tcpip socket for my communications
path.  Luckily, on the VMS side my device driver and application are
written in Macro, so I'm able to debug and troubleshoot them to my
heart's content.  I have a "trace" function written into the driver
that simply copies the data it receives from the socket to my screen,
along with a hex representation of the same data.  So I found that
while the data is being displayed as (null, I assume), the hex appears
to be correct.

For example, when I receive this data:

Vous répondez à une personne....

my system displays it as this:

Vous rpondez  une personne....

but the hex translation is this:

56 6f 75 73 20 72 e9 70 6f 6e 64 65 7a 20 e0 20 75 6e 65 20 70
65 .....

Since it sees that first  é    as hex e9, does that mean it's not
truncating the high order bit, or still is?  If I'm not being
truncated, I can easily add my own translation table to make the hex
e9 = a plain old e.  It's not ideal for language, but I think this
customer is used to our system not having accents, so it would
probably be more acceptable than just dropping letters out of words.