[Info-vax] terminal fallback tables

[Craig A. Berry]

On 3/7/15 2:12 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-03-07 09:52, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>
>> Or install Perl and use piconv.
>
> iconv and perl/phps etc do not work at the terminal driver level where
> input is transparently converted.

As Hoff said to one of your other recent messages: Duh.

> For instance, I had use the TFF for a translator who conected to a
> government service that provided old style french characters (2 bytes)
> and TFF automatically converted it to DEC MCS to display on the VT
> terminals, and when she typed in an accented character, it was
> automatically cobcerted to the 2 byte equivalent when sent over the
> modem line. (it wa sthe modem line that was set to go TFF).

It may well be the OP needs to do something exactly like that. But since
there was a question about a solution without any statement of the
problem, more general advice about character conversion is certainly
relevant.