[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents
Bob Koehler
koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Fri Apr 17 17:47:44 EDT 2009
>
> Vous r=E9pondez =E0 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 .....
OK, E9 in DEC MCS, and I think in ISO-LATIN-1, is a lower case e with
an ' (leaning right) over it.
So what are you accessing your VMS system with that doesn't display
this? My real VT240, my copy of puTTY set up to use DEC MCS, and my
copy of vtstar emulating a VT320 all display this correctly.
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