[Info-vax] Terminal emulators, was: Re: Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-09-14 kl. 12:32, skrev hb:
> On 9/14/19 9:11 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
>> Michael wrote: DEC-MCS if you insist!
>>
>> Why did you add that comment? I use DEC-MCS in PuTTY to connect to my own VMS systems.
>> Seems to work for me (EDT mainly and home grown programs that use SMG routines)
> 
> Because the character sets ISO-8859-1 and DEC-MCS differ in 5 characters
> (which you may not have used/needed), see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Character_Set. And VMS uses
> DEC-MCS not ISO-8859-1. For example 0xf7 is the character œ in DEC-MCS
> and ÷ in ISO-8859-1.
> 

VMS doesn't "use" any specific character set at all! It is
totally agnostic about character sets. VMS stores any 8-bit
value and what that looks like is a question about presentation.

The same file in VMS can look totally different depending on
what character set you have selected in (e.g.) Putty.

Of course you have to decide so that you create files and
presentate files using tools (like Putty or a web browsers)
using the same character set, but *VMS* doesn't care a bit.