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From: lhv@philpav.UUCP (Leo H.Vermeulen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: WQVT
Summary: 8 bit character set support??
Keywords: windows 3, WinQVT, kermit
Message-ID: <417@philpav.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 16:31:41 GMT
References: <11335@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Organization: Philips TDS, Stockholm, Sweden
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I would like to report two problems with WinQVT...

First problem: the program seems to have trouble understanding foreign
character sets. I have a PC on which Windows3 is set up to use the
Swedish character set. This means that the '/' character is under
shift-7, the '%' is under shift-5, and so on (don't ask me why, I'm
dutch, I'm just reporting the problem).  Well, when typing shift-7
what is echoed on my screen is '/&' (2 characters), these being the
characters that are assigned to shift-7 on an Swedish AND on a
American keyboard. Several other characters have a similar problem.
But then again, some don't. Does anyone have the same problem
(Germany?, Norway?)

Second problem: the program does not support a non-scrolling line 25. 
It doesn't support line 25, for that matter.
I use the line to display the time, date, and some more data, and
under e.g. Kermit the line remains fixed on position 25. WinQVT
doesn't seem to have a line 25. I might be mistaken, but doesn't a
standard VT100/VT220 support this??

WinQVT is a thousandfold improvement over the brain-damaged VT100
emulator that comes with Windows-3, and it's great to be able to
connect to Unix from within Windows, but I have still to meet a VT100
emulator that does as good a job as Kermit does .

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