"is set correctly" -> "is set incorrectly". You know what I meant!

Cheers,
Zik

On 9/4/07, Zik Saleeba <zik@zikzak.net> wrote:
> As far as I know it's on all of them. I usually only get this problem
> when I dump binary to the terminal by mistake. Or when the baud rate
> is set correctly.
>
> Cheers,
> Zik
>
> On 9/4/07, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> > 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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