Display Euro on Terminal Emulation Session

[Glynn Aherne_1]

Hi,

I'm having a problem displaying the euro on a terminal session ( Reflection for Unix and digital). I know HP don't support the Euro on terminal but I was wondering if anyone has overcome the same problem.

In Terminal setup - on the emulation Tab I've changed the Host Character Set to ISO Latin-9(8859-15).

Connecting to HP-UX

echo "\0244"
displays ???

Right_ALT Gr 4
displays $

Connecting to VMS

Right_ALT GR 4

displays ???

Connecting to Linux

Right ALT Gr 4

Displays ???

Any Ideas ??

Thanks,

Glynn.

[Bill Hassell]

This is a question for WRQ, not HP. The Reflection products come in two flavors: terminal emulation (Reflection/1 or Reflection for HP) and Xwindow emulation (Reflection/X).

The terminal emualtor (not Xwindows) will display any ASCII character (all 256 of them) by turning on DISPLAY FUNCTIONS. The Euro symbol was never defined for ASCII (ASCII precedes the Euro by decades) so there is no character that is assigned the Euro symbol. However, many good emulators (like WRQ products) have multiple character sets defined and starting with Reflection version 7 and higher, the Roman 9 (default was Roman 8) character set has the Euro. Go to http://wrq.com and search for euro to see how it is done. NOTE: You need to update your PC opsystem to handle the Euro symbol too.

Reflection/X (Xwindows) is more complicated since the window you see is from another computer (not your PC). Support for the Euro is defined in ISO Latin-9 (ISO-8859-15) so the question is best resolved from the host computer vendor. For HP-UX, see: http://www.hp.com/go/hpuxeuro

Other emulators, especially those with a "vt100" flavor have no code to handle special characters at all. After all, the vt100 designation belongs to a DEC terminal from the 1970's.

[Glynn Aherne_1]

I've got the Euro Displaying on a VT220 Termianl Emulator.

I change the shell from posix (/bin/sh) to korn
(/bin/ksh).

Change the terminal port settings

stty cs8 -istrip.

I'm not sure but I think the posix shell is only cablable of diplaying 7 bit ascii characters i.e 0-127. And cannot display the extended ascii charcter set.
128-255 where the Euro symbols resides.

If anybody has any ideas on how the Posix Shell can display the extended character set plese forward them onto me.

Thanks,

Glynn.