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Rejig the Translation panel controls and documentation to remove the emphasis

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on received data. Experiment and suggestion suggest that the character set
configuration applies equally to keystrokes sent to the server, or at least
that that's close enough to being true that we should document it as a first
approximation.

[originally from svn r8209]
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Jacob Nevins 2008-10-13 22:34:57 +00:00
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commit 02f7ccbb96
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@ -1577,8 +1577,8 @@ void setup_config_box(struct controlbox *b, int midsession,
"Options controlling character set translation");
s = ctrl_getset(b, "Window/Translation", "trans",
"Character set translation on received data");
ctrl_combobox(s, "Received data assumed to be in which character set:",
"Character set translation");
ctrl_combobox(s, "Remote character set:",
'r', 100, HELPCTX(translation_codepage),
codepage_handler, P(NULL), P(NULL));

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@ -1240,13 +1240,17 @@ the character set understood by PuTTY.
During an interactive session, PuTTY receives a stream of 8-bit
bytes from the server, and in order to display them on the screen it
needs to know what character set to interpret them in.
needs to know what character set to interpret them in. Similarly,
PuTTY needs to know how to translate your keystrokes into the encoding
the server expects. Unfortunately, there is no satisfactory
mechanism for PuTTY and the server to communicate this information,
so it must usually be manually configured.
There are a lot of character sets to choose from. The \q{Received
data assumed to be in which character set} option lets you select
one. By default PuTTY will attempt to choose a character set that is
right for your \i{locale} as reported by Windows; if it gets it wrong,
you can select a different one using this control.
There are a lot of character sets to choose from. The \q{Remote
character set} option lets you select one. By default PuTTY will
attempt to choose a character set that is right for your \i{locale} as
reported by Windows; if it gets it wrong, you can select a different
one using this control.
A few notable character sets are:
@ -1263,9 +1267,10 @@ Euro symbol.
line-drawing characters, you can select \q{\i{CP437}}.
\b PuTTY also supports \i{Unicode} mode, in which the data coming from
the server is interpreted as being in the \i{UTF-8} encoding of Unicode.
If you select \q{UTF-8} as a character set you can use this mode.
Not all server-side applications will support it.
the server is interpreted as being in the \i{UTF-8} encoding of Unicode,
and keystrokes are sent UTF-8 encoded. If you select \q{UTF-8} as a
character set you can use this mode. Not all server-side applications
will support it.
If you need support for a numeric \i{code page} which is not listed in
the drop-down list, such as code page 866, then you can try entering