Zik Saleeba wrote:

>> I'm using Tera Term as my usual serial terminal program. Free and
>> generally very reliable, and nice to use. 
>> 
>> But every now and then, and I can't figure out a pattern at all, the
>> display gets completely funky: as far as I can figure out, all lower
>> case letters (no upper case letters, no numbers) are replaced with some
>> odd dingbat type symbols. If I copy the Tera Term screen content and
>> paste it into a text editor, I see the content correctly. 
>> 
>> Does anybody else have seen this, and more importantly, knows how to
>> fix it?

> This happens on most VT100-compatible terminal programs. If an ASCII
> "shift out" (or SO) code is sent to the terminal it switches to a
> graphical character set. You can switch it back by sending an ASCII
> "shift in" or by using Control->Reset Terminal in Tera Term.

AAAHH :)  Thanks a lot! I'll try that the next time around. This would
explain the arbitrariness of that. (I don't know why the SO code would have
been sent in most circumstances, but that's another question.)

Do you know whether any of the various terminal emulations that Tera Term
has does not have this feature? They list VT101, VT102, VT282, VT320,
VT382. (I had it on the default VT100, since I don't need -- nor want :) --
any specific terminal features.)

Gerhard

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