HIGH?: Pico's allergy to accents on dev and csuite

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:16:27 -0400 (AST)
From: David Trueman <david@cs.dal.ca>
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Do accents work in other contexts on these machines?  I suspect either
that pico is linked against temcap on one machine and terminfo on another
or that for some reason it is stripping the 8th bit (stty settings?)
or that something is different on linux.


On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Robert Cormier wrote:

> With both CIDIF (Edmundston, NB) and Club-Libertel (Montreal, QC) planning
> to install French CSuite in the coming days/weeks, I am wondering if closer
> attention should be given to the fact that Pico do not allow the typing of
> diacritics on dev and csuite, while it does it perfectly on CCN.
> 
> I tested with Ewan, TeraTerm and QvtTerm and got the same result, while on
> CCN, the three abovementioned programs allow the accents when in Pine
> message composer. I infer from this that the problem might be on the server
> end, not the terminal. If CIDIF and Club-Libertel are to face the same
> problem, I think we should be able to offer help to them.  
> 
> P.S. The accents are not replaced by strange symbols, but by other characters.
> E.g. e acute (é) becomes "i": René (Rene') becomes Reni... 
> ---------------------------------------
> Robert Cormier  <cormier@csuite.ns.ca>  
> Réseautique CSUITE Networking ltée/ltd
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> 

  David Trueman,
    Systems Manager, Dalhousie Faculty of Computer Science
    Technical Chair, Chebucto Community Net

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