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   From dewe0223@acad.csv.kutztown.edu Tue Mar 22 21:57:12 1994

   Thank you for that tid-bit of information, but I think we're missing the
   big picutre here.  I need to know how to get the hungarian characters to
   display on a VT100/102/220  terminal.  Before the person can send out a
   message, he/she has to compose that message.  Right now, the message is
   composed using some kind of text editor on the pc.  The file is then
   translated, using a piece of software that changes extended ascii on the
   Ibm PC to a bunch of wierd regular ascii characters [like ~0 means a with
   an accent, and ~1 means A with an accent].  The problem with this method
   is that the receiving party then has to put the mail through their own
   converter to get the original text  back out. I would be nice to be able
   to compose the message on the fly... in some kind of standard character
   set. I know little to nothing about OSI standards, or localization.  Even
   as a CIS studemt, most everything that I deal with is in english.
     I heard once about code pages on the PC, is there something similar?
     We are using pine as our primary mail composer/reader... is there some
   special format that could tell pine  the the composer wants keys with
   accents in them?  Is this something that the people who created pine
   should look into?

>
> Does your vt220 display latin2 czech/hungarian characters??
>
> There are two solutions to these problems. One exists on the Solaris system.
>
> 1) The utilty "iconv" can be set up with a program to map and pc code page to
> either iso latin2 or iso latin 1. iconv can be set up in a shell script or a
> pipe to do filtering.
>
> 2) a streams module could be written to map character sets on a character
>  "streams" device. Normally this is very transparent. As far as I know, this
>  streams module is non standard on US Solaris, although some samples may be
>  available for Japanese.
>
>  Glenn.