[Info-vax] Open source terminal emulators, was: Re: DECnet Phase IV broken after VSI update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/2/2021 12:59 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-11-02 kl. 15:59, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 11/1/2021 9:40 PM, dthi... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> 8 bit support is a critical feature.
>>>
>>> PuTTY does do 8-bit; note that Putty's identification sequence is
>>> hard-coded, so SET TERM /INQUIRE will always identify it as a VT102.
>>>
>>> You can override this by setting the terminal type manually. SET TERM
>>> /DEV=<pick> /EIGHT. You can even make color work if you set the color
>>> attribute manually.
>>>
>>> It also helps if you set the font to DEC MCS.  :-)
>>
>> I use PuTTY myself.
> 
> We have the oposite problem. We *need* 7-bit national "SW/FI" char set.

> So, if using Putty, one has to remember to use []{}\ (and one more
> I do not remember for the swedish chars åäöÅÄÖ...

(I believe the last one is |)

NRC. A long time since I last saw them.

I took a quick look at Putty sources. It looks tricky to
add to Putty since Putty on Windows use Windows API and
code pages - and modern Windows does not come with support
for CP 1018 and 1106.

Could you hack it by putting in a little passthrough
program using pseudo-terminal and doing a replacement
on both input and output characters?

Arne