> On Feb 17, 2025, at 12:04 PM, ben via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2025-02-17 7:26 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
> ...
>> 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.
No, since current Unicode is an upware compatible extension of the original.
Typical modern terminal emulator programs handle Unicode; my Mac certainly does
and there are even examples for Windows (like Putty).
>> 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.
No, but you could make one up easily enough. Start with Latin-1, and replace
the few characters that are different. A VT220 reference will tell you the
ones to replace. Any font editor should do this easily.
paul
