[Info-vax] Making sure Character Encodings dont't break between workstation and OpenVMS

[Marc Van Dyck]

Tapland presented the following explanation :
> I am a beginning software developer for OpenVMS on a Windows workstation. I 
> previously used Notepad++ and it's NppFTP plugin to browse, download and 
> upload file to the OpenVMS-machine.
>
> With a new computer I noticed that I could no longer get character encodings 
> (Nordic characters) to show correctly in Npp without manually changing 
> encoding in each file I pull and open. I also had issues with the encoding 
> breaking at upload, regardless of settings in the FTP-plugin because of 
> errendous encoding in the opened file.  
>   
> Looking for alternatives I tried out Sublime text, which seems great, and 
> does seem to show any file I throw at it correctly, but upon trying the 
> available SFTP plugin the character encodings break. In my PuTTY session I 
> seem to see the characters correctly when it works on OpenVMS, and errendous 
> when they are errendous, using ISO-8859-1.  
>   
> How do I check what character encodings I need to be using, I assume which 
> one the OpenVMS machine is really using, so that I can set my editor to use 
> the same, and to make sure I upload files encoded correctly?

I know that it would force you to learn a new set of tools but would
it not be easier to edit the files on the OpenVMS system directly,
rather than copying them over ?

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Marc Van Dyck