TPU editor and 8-bit characters

[csewell]

Did EVE/TPU ever support 8-bit characters? I know it has a /CHARACTER_SET qualifier but this doesn't seem to do much. If I edit a file that includes accented characters, the characters just disappear as if they were not even there. If I try to paste in accented characters, the sign bit is stripped and they show up as their 7-bit equivalents.

[arne_v]

Yes. Out of the box.

DECMCS/ISO-8859-1 not UTF-8 of course.

[csewell]

So why am I not seeing 8-bit characters in the TPU/EVE editor and why am I not able to paste in 8-bit characters? Typing a file with 8-bit characters displays the characters just fine in PuTTY. Editing the file with TPU does not. What am I missing?

[arne_v]

I think we need more info.

What does:

$ SHOW TERM

show?

What is Putty settings?

[csewell]

Thanks, you solved it for me. I have a SET TERMINAL /INQUIRE in my LOGIN.COM. This sets it to VT102 which is /NOEIGHT_BIT. SET TERMINAL /INQUIRE /EIGHT_BIT fixed it.

[arne_v]

Putty is OK, but I have never had much luck with:

$ set term/inq

and I always use:

$ set term/dev=vt400/wid=132

[csewell]

I don't like to be limited by the standard 24x80 or 24x132 size. /INQUIRE will set my width and page size to whatever my PuTTY window size + font size is.

[thorleif]

Hello
I have not used eve since the '80s. It is very slow and it takes a long time to start. It says no such file and no such folder when it's starting.. I use Device_Type: VT100 because it's the only device type that works for me. I am in Iceland and we need support for special charcter (8 bit). Do you know what i can do to make eve more responsive

Thanks,
Thorleifur

[sms]

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> [...] it takes a long time to start. [...]

   Define "a long time".  How big is the file?

   TPU reads the whole file into RAM, which can be slow if your disk
("disk") is slow, or if your process memory is small.

      show memory /physical

   Run AUTHORIZE, SHOW <user>, look at WSdef/WSquo/WSextent?

[thorleif]

It is just a small file

$ type demo.cxx
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
int main(){

std::cout << "hALLO HEIMUR" <<'\n';

std::vector<int> v;

v.push_back(1);
int i;
i=v.back(
return 0;

}