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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-11-03 kl. 03:06, skrev 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
> 
> 

No, our solution is to use Attachmate Extra! for the end-users.
It has a setup for 7-bit NRC. We, in support, uses DEC-NCS, which
is mostly the same as ISO 8-bit standard.