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.
