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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2019 6:32 AM, hb wrote:
> 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.

I would say that depends.

Once upon a time I guess everybody on VMS used DECMCS.

But today I would expect a lot to ISO-8859-1 (or in
some cases -15).

Any decent terminal emulator will support both. And
I would actually expect ISO-8859-1 to be default.

Arne