Re: [LINUX5250] Re: translation map

[phil <phillip.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think my problem is not too bad.
They either need Euro and UK 122 keyboard or not.
So they get -15 and codepage 237
or -1 and codepage 37.

If they are UK, no broken bar.

It is a problem.  If it ever arises as a problem for me, I'll just rebuild
and transmap  broken bar to vert bar.

Thanks for your time.

BTW a command line arg for tn5250, sort of like unix tr,
a temporary transmap patch, would be handy.  A liitle messy perhaps.

tn5250   map  "ibm037:8859-1:106:166"

Carey Evans wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> > As far as I can tell, CCSID 1140 on the AS/400 is the equivalent of 
> > CCSID 37 with the Euro, and would map to ISO-8859-15 (CCSID 923) on 
> > the client.  However, tn5250 doesn't support CCSID 1140.
>
>
> I checked again after a good night's sleep, and while IBM changed just 
> one character from CCSID 37 to CCSID 1140 (currency sign ¤ to the 
> Euro), the ISO changed seven more from ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-15, 
> including the broken bar ¦ to S with caron.  This means you can't 
> easily use tn5250 with an AS/400 with the Euro character at all, 
> because there's no character set on a Linux client that contains all 
> the necessary characters.
>
> To do this properly on Linux you need to use Unicode, either from a 
> Unicode-aware X11 client, or in a UTF-8 capable console or terminal 
> emulator.
>
> I don't suppose the app you're using can be changed to use the solid 
> vertical bar (|, x'4F') rather than broken vertical bar (¦, x'6A')?  
> The remaining replaced characters don't look likely to be commonly used.