A fellow member of a listserv inquires:

"Dear wizards--

"We have a pair guest students from Taiwan staying with us here in 
Silicon Valley for a few months.   They would like to keep in touch with 
folks at home, and can do so with Yahoo Mail.  We have Big5 and MingLiu 
fonts.  That's all fine.

"BUT, when they try to use a BBS, their idea would be to do so by using 
TELNET to activate it.   When they do so, the screen they get is full of 
characters that are not Chinese, but make no sense in English either.

"A friend suggested SIMPTERM, but that suffers from the same behavior.

"Can anyone suggest how to use TELNET, or to find an equivalent, for 
Chinese?"


Anyone have a suggestion I can pass along? Other than suggesting he quit 
triple-spacing after periods, that is?

Dick

Dick Margulis <margulisd@comcast.net> had written:
| 
| "Can anyone suggest how to use TELNET, or to find an equivalent, for 
| Chinese?"
| 
| 
| Anyone have a suggestion I can pass along? Other than suggesting he quit 
| triple-spacing after periods, that is?
| 
Check out:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Chinese-HOWTO-9.html

The instructions seem to be for Linux-based clients, but it sounds
like there are two problems: Telnet needs to be set for fully
binary communications (i.e. no ASCII) and a Big5 character set
needs to be supported.

Google on "Telnet Big5" for some other links.


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