[HECnet] Non ASCII fonts on VMS?

[Sampsa Laine]

On 28 Sep 2013, at 11:36, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-09-28 11:30, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Yeah I was thinking of typing up some Arabic documents in say EDIT and using TYPE to view them - but Terminal.app doesn't seem to pass the Arabic letters across correctly.

I think you are a little confused.

I probably didn't express myself clearly enough :)


"Arabic letters" as such don't pass through anywhere. We're talking computers here. Everything is ones and zeroes.

Except Terminal.app only accepts Latin letters as input, rejects Arabic. Not a VMS issue.

It's just a case of how you choose to interpret those ones and zeroes at each end. Are you saying that Terminal.app (a program I avoid by the way, since the VT100 emulation is buggy)  

I've not run into any major issues with