topic Re: # character displaying as # in Operating System - HP-UX

# character displaying as #

Keith Ralph_2 — Wed, 17 Nov 1999 03:32:49 GMT

Using Chameleon (on a PC) to telnet (vt100) to HPUX 10.20 the ? sign comes out
as a #. Environment variable TERM=vt100. I've tried it with vt320 but still the
same. If I echo the ? sign back to the screen it is blank. I've tried to
reconfigure the keyboard settings on the PC with no joy.

Any help much appreciated.

Keith Ralph STS

Re: # character displaying as #

javier juarez_1 — Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:44:22 GMT

Try match options from terminal (or emulation ) seek for Keyboard ( must be
USASCII ) and Language ( must be ENGLISH )

Re: # character displaying as #

Keith Ralph_2 — Thu, 18 Nov 1999 06:21:53 GMT

Thanks for your help Javier.

There is an international settings option that I changed to UK and an NRC flag
that I had to switch on.
I can now get a ? sign but the # now comes out as a ? as well!!!

Although the help for NRC says this is expected......

" NRC: National Character Set (NRC) is a method that partially solves
multinational character problem in 7 bit mode. It replaces some of the ASCII
characters with the specified language's characters. The NRC supports 12
languages including USASCII.
When you select the NRC option, your keyboard input will be filtered before it
is transmitted to the remote hose.
Note: When NRC is enabled, characters such as #, @, [,\,].. cannot be
used. "