French language character set

[Peter Bateman]

       Hi Harold:
 
         Etienne makes a good point.
 
         Your emulator probably allows
          you set the host character set 
          and your PC character set.
 
          If this is something that has to be
          down a lot, you users wll probably 
          want to set the PC keyboard to
          English ( US -International ).
 
          This will allow the users to use
          Microsoft compose keys to create
          the extended characters instead
          ol using the ALT plus number 
          method.
 
          See       http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards1.asp
 
         If the users are use to the French or
         French Canadian they can use that keyboard.
 
          If their normal PC operations are done in
          English then the English ( US -International )
          keyboard is for them. WithFrench keyboards certain characters are at different locations.
 
          Regards,
          Peter Bateman
          


From: peterbateman808 at hotmail.comTo: powerh-l at lists.sowder.comSubject: RE: French language character setDate: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:05:15 -0300


Hi Harold:     SET TERM/VT220 or higher.     Can you see the French characters using    RDB's SQL tool?     If you can good! If not it is not PowerHouse.       I am assuming that the character set in     database is DEC supplemental. Which is very    much like Windows 1252 except that     characters whose decimal eqivalents are    in the range 128-160 may not avaliable.    In some cases they are considered control    characters in the DEC world.       The charcacter that people seem to miss    the most is the euro at decimal 128 ( € ).      The first thing you  want to     to do is set the character set to ASCII8 French    in the dictionary.     If the database character set is    not DEC supplemental nor WINDOWS 1252    then you will want to replace the character    set and downshift and upshift tables in the     dictornary.      Then try a simple screen.      ALT key 0233 is é. Regards,Peter Bateman             > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:05:23 -0400> Subject: Re: French language character set> From: erompre at koala-tech.com> To: Harold.A.Johnson at gov.bc.ca; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com> > Harold,> > Which terminal emulation soft are you using?> > I'm running Powerhouse on OpenVMS 7.3 and I have Reflection on PC and Mac> and I do not have any issues to display é à ê or other french caracters.> > Sometimes, the problem comes from the font file used to display the> caracters on screen. Some fonts do not have thoses embeded in them. Have> you tried to change the font used by the software to display on screen?> > Let me know...> > A+> > Etienne Rompré> > Le 17/10/07 14:02, « Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX »> > > Hello all. Can anyone point me in the direction of some documentation> > on how to get a french character set to display on a VT type terminal> > emulator (windows software)? The data is coming from an Oracle RDB> > database, using OpenVMS PH v710g1.> > > > Any comments are appreciated as well.> > > > thnx> > > > > -- > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = => Mailing list: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com> Subscribe: "subscribe" in message body to powerh-l-request at lists.sowder.com> Unsubscribe: "unsubscribe <password>" in message body to powerh-l-request at lists.sowder.com> http://lists.sowder.com/mailman/listinfo/powerh-l> This list is closed, thus to post to the list you must be a subscriber.> Add 'site:lists.sowder.com powerh-l' to your search terms to search the list archive at Google.

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