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From: hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: mactcp contd; and Telnet question
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.230204.19269@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 23:02:04 GMT
References: <34943@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <34943@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> judge@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas Judge) writes:
>Now, one more question: why is it that with both NCSA Telnet and the
>Stanford MacIP, the quote and apostrophe keys dont work with 
>an apple extended keyboard? I get random capital letters instead.

I suspect you must be running some INIT to give you "smart" quotes.  The code
points on the Macintosh for these curved apostrophe and quotation characters
correspond to the code points for capital letters with the high order bit
turned on.  Many machines use the high order bit in characters for parity, so
terminal emulators like Telnet ignore the high order bit to avoid being
confused by it.  Thus, your "smart" quotes look like capital letters to the
terminal emulation.  Turn off "smart" quotes and Telnet should behave normally.
-- 
Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications