17 Feb
2025
17 Feb
'25
9:04 a.m.
On 2025-02-17 7:26 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I've never seen an ASCII terminal that was missing
square brackets. But in theory those codes were "national use" codes, and for
non-English language use they would be redefined as A with umlaut or stuff like that.
This is why RSTS/E at some point introduced parentheses as alternates for the square
brackets it had always used as directory name delimiters. For us in the US that was never
interesting.
I live in western Canada, and they (windows) keeps wanting me not have
the US character set.
The problem was fixed fairly well with the
introduction of the DEC Multinational Character Set, which later morphed into ISO Latin-1
(with the curious omission of the oe ligature) and later the various other
Latin-<n> sets. And the problem was solved completely with Unicode.
Could you point me to a Unicode Terminal ?
There must be thousands in dumpsters with unicode 1.0.
paul
I use TeraTerm 4, as termial. Could you supply a windows "DEC
Multinational Character Set" font so I know the program will work correctly.
Ben.