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Configuring the emulator
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These countries must choose the correct transliteration table from the supplied
sets. Choice of a seven-bit national transliteration table (e.g. SPA for Spain)
means that your mainframe is using the corresponding seven-bit ASCII character
set. This means that Glink blocks entry of any other characters from the
keyboard, and allows only the national characters defined in the national sevenbit ASCII set.
You can make a custom transliteration file by using the 'Configure' button to
reach the user interface for defining new transliteration files. Save the file with a
name in the form *.glinkxlit in order that it be listed as a transliteration file.
UTF-8 host encoding
This option tells Glink to use UTF-8 (Unicode transformation format) encoding
for communication with the host machine. UTF-8 is a variable-length character
encoding for Unicode used as a default on some open systems such as Linux.
Glink will convert received data to the currently configured character set. The
default is the character set you have configured for Windows, but this can be
changed for internal use in Glink using the character set option in:
Screen properties=>Fonts=>character set
UTF-8 is only required when characters outside the base ASCII (0x00-0x7F)
character set are to be used. The option is suitable for hosts that use an extended
character set, but keep within a given 8-bit character set, such as the ISO8859
series.
If the host system uses Unicode and characters from outside a given 8-bit set
then you need the option for full Unicode support:
Emulator properties=>Transliteration=>Full Unicode/UTF-8 support
If you are running on Linux you can check whether or not you are set upfor
UTF-8 by examining the 'LANG' or 'LC_' environment variables with 'set' or
'env'. 'en_US.UTF-8' is a typical default that specifies UTF-8. It may also be
necessary to define an appropriate terminal type response for telnet, typically 'vtutf8'.
Setting UTF-8 encoding will set 8-bit host mode automatically.
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