[Simh] xterm and simh

[Peter Allan]

Thanks Paul and Johnny. I did find the "8-bit controls" menu, but I get the
problem whether it is ticked or unticked. I will check the UTF-8 situation.

Cheers

Peter


On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 19:12, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On May 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands
> 8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't.
>
> If VMS is like RSTS, there is an "8 bit characters" setting but no
> separate 8-bit controls setting, and presumably programs assume the former
> implies the latter.  After all, it does with DEC's terminals.
>
> > Ctrl+Left click should show a menu entry "8-bit controls", which is the
> corresponding thing on the xterm side.
> >
> > However, to properly answer your question, we'd need to know a lot more
> about your environment. And it's a bit hard to even ask the right questions
> here, because xterm is so flexible that you can accomplish a lot of stuff
> in multiple ways, and you might not even know what you are doing... And VMS
> tries to figure out what your terminal is, and depending on various
> details, xterm will identify in different ways, which is what VMS then base
> its settings on...
>
> As Johnny also pointed out, be sure not to have xterm set for UTF-8.  Not
> just because of 8-bit controls, but also because DEC applications are
> unlikely to know about it; they normally assume DEC MCS (a.k.a., DEC Std
> 169).  Latin-1 is a good approximation though not identical.
>
>         paul
>
>
>
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