Re: Vintage AS/400 - Terminal weirdness? (James H. H. Lampert)

On 12/11/2017 10:44 AM, Barnett, Andy wrote:

Thanks James - if there is a way to stop the terminal talking in "diacritic" character mode that might do it. If I type, unexpected (but not random) Western characters appear, and I think the little "d" mode symbol appears in the bottom row. Actually I have no clue..... but the Troubleshooting Booklet says "to find out how to exit Diacritic Mode see your system operator or the system program manual." I've removed all the keys and cleaned up. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be :-)

Diacritic mode happens when you press an accent key like circumflex or
grave accent. You might be pressing an accent key even if you believe
otherwise - if the keyboard ID in the 3196 logic unit doesn't match the
physical keyboard.

1) Switch the power off
2) Press and hold Space
3) Power on. Hold Space until the test pattern appears
4) Shift + Setup
5) The keyboard ID are the two digits in the lower right. My memory
says they should read '00'
6) Shift + F23 will increase the number
7) Shift + Setup to exit setup
8) Reset

Along the same lines, check the Multinational Character Set setting.
Once in setup mode, it's Shift + F22 to toggle.

--buck