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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

5893.0. "FullName and national characters?" by COPCLU::SANDGREN (Keep it simple) Fri Mar 04 1994 09:06

	A customer uses national characters by help of the FullName
	function. In Denmark, these are '�', '�' and '�'. In the Ico-
	nic Map Interface, it works OK, but the command interface seems
	to show only 7-bit characters.

	Do we have a bug, or is this use of national chars. not suppor-
	ted?

	Ultrix V4.3, MCC + Toolkit V1.3-0.

	Thanks for any help,

	Poul Sandgren, Network Group /Denmark
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5893.1TAEC::MALLETTeMIP PM engineering.Fri Mar 04 1994 11:0713
 The parsing method used by the FCL PM does not support 8 bits 
 characters. The Danish national characters you mentioned are
 not supported (� = 0xe6, � = 0xd8, � = 0xe5....)

 You could enter these names between double quotes, like :

 create domain "Bj�nB�rg"
 
 The parsing will not check double-quoted names in the same way.

 Hope this helps.
5893.2perhaps this is stupidCOPCLU::SANDGRENKeep it simpleMon Mar 07 1994 08:5923
>You could enter these names between double quotes, like :

>create domain "Bj�nB�rg"
 
>The parsing will not check double-quoted names in the same way.

	This does not work. Let me explain:

	Customer uses a DECterm on his Ultrix station, with a setup of
	'stty pass8'. From the Ultrix prompt, he can type the danish
	characters OK. As soon as he enters FCL, he can't type these
	characters. And using double quotes doesn't help either.

	But if he edits a script from the Ultrix prompt, and he does
	an 'FCL do <script>', the danish characters are there!

	So, could this be a matter of some simple setup?!?

	Thanks,

	Poul
5893.3Bad luck...TAEC::MALLETTeMIP PM engineering.Tue Mar 08 1994 04:4221

 The FCL PM uses two differents input paths. The prompt mode reads characters
 from the TTY and store them in a SIGNED char buffer. I tested that
 if you enter a 8bits character, the readed value will be NEGATIVE.
 This means that the parsing code will discard it. These characters
 are not echoed (I think this should be the same for you...).

 The -from-file- input method doesn't use the same path as the
 input strings. The input values doesn't come from a TTY.
 In this mode don't forget to enter 8bits characters name between
 double-quotes. This is the ONLY way to keep the instance
 name relevant for the DNS FullName routines.

 
 I'm sorry but this is not a simple matter of stty setup.
 FYI, I'm currently working on some I18n features, and this is not
 so easy. !!!

 Best Regards
 J.P.
5893.4thanks for your explanation!COPCLU::SANDGRENKeep it simpleTue Mar 08 1994 09:321