UPDATE# NEW CHARACTER-SET SUPPORT

A new command is available to tell MS-DOS Kermit what your actual code page
is, for purposes of character-set translation during terminal emulation:

  SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE CPnnn

where nnn are digits.  This command is necessary because most PCs fail to
report active code pages other than CP437 and CP850 correctly, and so Kermit
generally has no way to find out when you have some other code page loaded.
This command is distinct from SET FILE CHARACTER-SET, so you can select
translations for terminal emulation and file transfer separately if you want
to.  MS-DOS Kermit knows about the following code pages:

 Code Page  File-Xfer  Term-Emul  Comments
   CP437	Y	   Y	  Original PC, and usually hardware, code page
   CP850	Y	   Y	  Multilingual West European code page
   CP852*	Y	   Y	  Multilingual East European code page
   CP860	Y	   Y	  Portuguese code page
   CP861*	Y	   Y	  Icelandic code page
   CP862*	Y	   Y	  Hebrew code page
   CP863	Y	   Y	  Canadian-French code page
   CP865	Y	   Y	  Norwegian/Danish code page
   CP866	Y	   N	  Cyrillic code page
 Shift-JIS**	Y	   N	  Japanese Kanji multibyte code page = CP982

** New to version 3.12
*  New to version 3.13

Roman character sets for East European languages (Czech, Polish, Hungarian,
Romanian, etc) (version 3.13).	Commands:

   SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET LATIN2 ; ISO 8859-2 Latin Alphabet 2
   SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET LATIN2 ; ISO 8859-2 Latin Alphabet 2
   SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE CP852	     ; Code page 852
   SET FILE CHARACTER-SET CP852	     ; Code page 852

   MS-DOS 5.0 and later include the East European Code Page, CP852.
   To use this code page:

   1. Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then reboot:

      C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP PREPARE=((850,,437,852) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)

   4. To load the East European code page, use this DOS command:

      C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP SELECT=852

New Icelandic code page support (version 3.13).	 Commands:

   SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET LATIN1 (or DEC-MCS, or whatever)
   SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET LATIN1
   SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE CP861
   SET FILE CHARACTER-SET CP861

   Use MODE CON CP PREPARE, if necessary, to install this code page.
   Use MODE CON CP SELECT=861 to load it.

Cyrillic terminal emulation and file transfer (version 3.11):

  For Cyrillic terminal emulation, use the initialization files supplied on
  the distribution diskette in CYRILLIC.INI.  This is a "text archive of
  several different files; use a text editor to pick out the ones you need.

  A public-domain Cyrillic code page, constructed by Dimitri Vulis of D&M
  Consulting in New York City, is supplied in the file CP866.CPI.  Let's
  assume your Kermit installation diskette is in drive A:.  To install the
  Cyrillic Code page:

  1. MKDIR C:\CYRILLIC
  2. COPY A:\CYRILLIC\CP866.CPI C:\CYRILLIC
  3. Add the following lines to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and then reboot:

       C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP PREPARE=((850,,437) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)
       C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP PREPARE=((,866,,) C:\CYRILLIC\CP866.CPI)

     Note: If you also want to use the East European Code Page, substitute:

       C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP PREPARE=((850,,437,852) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)

  4. To load the Cyrillic code page, use this DOS command:

       C:\DOS\MODE CON: CP SELECT=866

  5. Then start Kermit, TAKE the desired .INI files from CYRILLIC.INI for
     Cyrillic terminal emulation.  For file transfer use these commands:

       SET FILE CHARACTER-SET CP866
       SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET CYRILLIC

Japanese Kanji file transfer (version 3.12).  Commands:

  SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET JAPANESE-EUC
  SET FILE CHARACTER-SET SHIFT-JIS

  Kanji character-set translation during terminal emulation is not yet
  available, but Kermit CONNECT mode works in Kanji mode on Japanese DOS/V
  computers, which is useful if the remote host uses the same Shift-JIS
  character set as MS-DOS Kermit. 

Hebrew terminal emulation and file transfer (version 3.13).  Commands:

  SET TRANSFER CHARACTER-SET HEBREW-ISO
  SET FILE CHARACTER-SET CP862
  SET TERMINAL CHARACTER-SET { HEBREW-ISO, HEBREW-7 }
  SET TERMINAL DIRECTION { RIGHT-TO-LEFT, LEFT-TO-RIGHT }
  SET TERMINAL CODE-PAGE CP862

  Terminal direction is controlled in two different ways: (1) by
  host-generated escape sequences (automatic, see below) and (2) by the
  SET TERMINAL DIRECTION command.  When the writing direction is changed by
  escape sequences from the host, the cursor-positioning coordinate system
  is not changed.  For example, if Kermit was in left-to-right mode and the
  host send ESC [ ? 34 h, position (1,1) would still be in the upper left.
  This is how a real Hebrew-model VT terminal works.  If, however, you command
  Kermit into RIGHT-TO-LEFT mode, the coordinate system flips right to left
  so the origin (1,1) is at the upper right corner, which is useful for 
  viewing and composing some right to left text. The host can override the 
  user setting, and the user can later override the host setting.

  Hebrew character sets:

  . CP862 is the PC Hebrew code page, available from IBM as EGAHE.COM, or
    perhaps as a hardware code page on Hebrew-model PCs.  We cannot distribute
    this code page because it is proprietary.  You must have this code page
    loaded in order to see Hebrew characters on your screen.

  . HEBREW-ISO is the 8-bit standard ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew alphabet.

  . HEBREW-7 is the 7-bit Hebrew "National Replacement Character Set" (NRC),
    ASCII with the lowercase Roman letters replaced by Hebrew letters,
    often used in e-mail.

  MS-DOS Kermit 3.13 supports:

  . Automatic selection of writing direction by host escape sequence.
  . ISO 2022-compliant terminal character-set designation and invocation.
  . Hebrew keyboard mode.

  Hebrew-specific escape sequences recognized by the VT220 and 320 terminal
  emulators: 

    ESC ) H		Designates right half of Latin/Hebrew to G1   
    ESC * H		Designates right half of Latin/Hebrew to G2   
    ESC + H		Designates right half of Latin/Hebrew to G3   
    ESC ( % =		Designates 7-bit Hebrew NRC to G0-G3	      
    ESC ) " 4		Designates DEC supplement Hebrew letters to G1
    ESC * " 4		Designates DEC supplement Hebrew letters to G2
    ESC + " 4		Designates DEC supplement Hebrew letters to G3
    DCS 0 ! u " 4 ST	Assigns DEC supplement Hebrew as UPSS
    DCS 0 ! u H ST	Assigns Latin/Hebrew as UPSS
    CSI ? 34 h		Sets right-to-left screen-writing mode
    CSI ? 34 l		Sets left-to-right screen-writing mode
    CSI ? 35 h		Sets Hebrew keyboard mapping via Kermit macros
    CSI ? 35 l		Sets Roman (North American) keyboard mapping, ditto
    CSI ? 36 h		Hebrew encoding mode is 7-bit Hebrew-7 "National mode"
    CSI ? 36 l		Hebrew encoding mode is 8-bit ISO Latin/Hebrew

  Hebrew keyboard mapping:

    CSI ? 35 h invokes the macro KEYBOARDS, which you must define to set up
    your keyboard for entering Hebrew characters.  If this macro is not
    defined, nothing happens.

    CSI ? 35 l invokes the macro KEYBOARDR, which you must define to set up
    your keyboard for entering Roman (North American) characters.  If this
    macro is not defined, nothing happens.

    Note: do not define KEYBOARDS without also defining KEYBOARDR to undo
    its effects!

  The various reports furnished by MS-DOS Kermit also include Hebrew-
  specific information, and the following host-initiated operations work
  in both left-to-right and right-to-left mode: Insert/Replace Mode, Autowrap,
  Backspace, Carriage Return, Linefeed, Formfeed, Vertical Tab, Horizontal Tab.

  The keyboard mapping sequences invoke the user-defined macros KEYBOARDS (h)
  and KEYBOARDR (l).  Users should define these macros to accomplish the
  desired keyboard mappings with SET KEY commands.

  In VT100 and VT102 mode, the following functions are supported:

    ESC ) 1		Enter Hebrew mode
    ESC ) B		Exit Hebrew mode

West European (including Icelandic), East European, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and
Kanji file transfer work in conjunction with C-Kermit 5A(189) and IBM
Mainframe Kermit 4.2.4.	 Hebrew file transfer is not available in C-Kermit
5A(188) or earlier.

Character-set translation goal selection:

SET TRANSLATION CHARACTER-SET { READABLE, INVERTIBLE }
  Default is READABLE. INVERTIBLE attempts to use code points as much in
  common between the transfer and file character sets as possible, with the
  transfer character set having priority.  Thus INVERTIBLE can create code
  points which do not display correctly on the destination machine but yield
  the closest match when a file is sent back to the originator.

Terminal-to-host keyboard character shifting:

SET TERMINAL OUTPUT-SHIFT { NONE, AUTOMATIC, SI/SO, SS2, SS3 }
  Allows you to type 8-bit characters on a 7-bit terminal connection.
  MS-DOS Kermit supplies the selected type of shifting:

    NONE  - (Default) No shifting
    SI/SO - Shift-In Shift-Out around each 8-bit character (GR = G1)
    SS2	  - Single-Shift 2 before each 8-bit character (GR = G2)
    SS3	  - Single-Shift 3 before each 8-bit character (GR = G3)
    AUTO  - Shift type depends on current character set GR assignment	 


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