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 <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist <b...@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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