## Kermit 95 Character Sets

One of Kermit 95's most important functions -- at least outside of the English-speaking world -- is to convert between the PC's codes for the characters of your language and the usually incompatible codes used on the host for the same language.

Kermit 95 can perform these conversions only for character sets that it knows about. The following table lists these sets. Legend:

     F - Can Be a File Character-Set
     T - Can Be a Transfer Character-Set
     L - Can Be a Terminal Local-Character-Set
     R - Can Be a Terminal Remote-Character-Set

     A - ASCII
     7 - ASCII with language-specific characters substituted in some positions
     S - A standard 8-bit character set with ASCII in the left half
     8 - A proprietary 8-bit character set that follows standard format
     P - A PC Code page, ASCII in left half, graphics in C1 and GR
     W - A Windows code page, like an ISO 8859 character set with graphics in C1
     B - A special set for Box and Line drawing or technical symbols, etc.
     M - A multibyte character set
     U - The Universal character set (Unicode, ISO 10646)

     CP  - Code Page
     NRC - National Replacement Character-Set (NRC) from DEC VT terminals

See Using C-Kermit, Chapter 16, for an explanation of the terminology.

     F  T  L  R  Type   Kermit Name        MIME Name       Description
              X   S     ARABIC-ISO         ISO-8859-6      ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic
     X  X  X  X   A     ASCII              US-ASCII        ANSI X3.4-1986 US ASCII
     X        X   7     BRITISH            ISO646-GB       ISO 646 British version
     X     X  X   P     BULGARIA-PC                        Bulgaria Cyrillic PC Code Page
     X        X   7     CANADIAN-FRENCH    ISO646-CA       Canadian French NRC
     X     X  X   P     CP437              IBM437          PC CP 437 (Originl PC Code Page)
           X  X   S     CP813                              PC CP 813 (ISO Latin/Greek)
           X  X   S     CP819              ISO-8859-1      PC CP 819 (ISO Latin 1)
     X     X  X   P     CP850              IBM850          PC CP 850 (PC "Multilingual")
     X     X  X   P     CP852                              PC CP 852 (PC Latin 2)
     X     X  X   P     CP855                              PC CP 855 (PC Cyrillic)
           X  X   P     CP857              ISO-8859-5      PC CP 857 (PC Latin 5)
     X     X  X   P     CP858                              PC CP 858 (= CP850 with with Euro)
     X     X  X   P     CP862              IBM862          PC CP 862 (PC Hebrew)
           X  X   P     CP864                              PC CP 864 (PC Arabic)
     X     X  X   P     CP866              IBM866          PC CP 866 (PC Russian)
     X     X  X   P     CP869              IBM869          PC CP 869 (PC Greek)
           X  X   S     CP912              ISO-8859-2      PC CP 912 (ISO Latin 2)
           X  X   S     CP913              ISO-8859-3      PC CP 913 (ISO Latin 3)
           X  X   S     CP914              ISO-8859-4      PC CP 914 (ISO Latin 4)
           X  X   S     CP915              ISO-8859-5      PC CP 915 (ISO Latin/Cyrillic)
           X  X   S     CP916              ISO-8859-8      PC CP 916 (ISO Latin/Greek)
           X  X   S     CP920              ISO-8859-9      PC CP 920 (ISO Latin 5)
           X  X   S     CP923                              PC CP 923 (ISO 8859-15 Latin 9)
           X  X   W     CP1051                             Windows CP 1051 (Windows HP Roman8)
           X  X   W     CP1089                             Windows CP 1089 (Windows Latin/Arabic)
     X     X  X   W     CP1250             WINDOWS-1250    Windows CP 1250 (Windows Latin 2)
     X     X  X   W     CP1251             WINDOWS-1251    Windows CP 1251 (Windows Latin/Cyrillic)
     X     X  X   W     CP1252             WINDOWS-1252    Windows CP 1252 (Windows Latin 1)
           X  X   W     CP1253                             Windows CP 1253 (Windows Latin/Greek)
           X  X   W     CP1254                             Windows CP 1254 (Windows Turkish)
           X  X   W     CP1255                             Windows CP 1255 (Windows Latin/Hebrew)
           X  X   W     CP1256                             Windows CP 1256 (Windows Arabic)
           X  X   W     CP1257                             Windows CP 1257 (Windows Latin 4)
           X  X   W     CP1258                             Windows CP 1258 (Windows Viet Nam)
           X  X   8     CP10000                            Windows CP 10000 (Windows Macintosh)
     X  X     X   S     CYRILLIC-ISO       ISO 8859-5      ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cryillic
     X        X   7     DANISH             ISO646-DK       ISO 646 Danish Version
     X            M     DEC-KANJI                          DEC Kanji (Japanese)
     X        X   8     DEC-MCS                            DEC-MCS         DEC Multinational
              X   B     DEC-SPECIAL                        DEC Special
              X   B     DEC-TECHNICAL                      DEC Technical
     X        X   8     DG-INTERNATIONAL                   Data General International
              X   B     DG-LINEDRAWING                     Data General Line Drawing
              X   B     DG-SPECIALGRAPHICS                 Data General Special Graphics
              X   B     DG-WORDPROCESSING                  Data General Words Processing
     X        X   7     DUTCH                              Dutch NRC
     X        X   7     ELOT927-GREEK                      Uppercase-only Roman and Greek
     X  X     X   S     ELOT928-GREEK      ISO-8859-7      Same as ISO Latin/Greek
     X  X         M     EUC-JP             EUC-JP          JIS X 0208 + JIS X 0201
     X        X   7     FINNISH            ISO646-FI       Finnish NRC
     X        X   7     FRENCH             ISO646-FR       ISO 646 French Version
     X        X   7     GERMAN             ISO646-DE       ISO 646 German Version
     X  X     X   S     GREEK-ISO          ISO-8859-7      ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek
     X        X   7     HEBREW-7                           VT100 7-bit Hebrew
     X  X     X   S     HEBREW-ISO         ISO-8859-8      ISO 8859-8 Latin/Hebrew
              X   B     HP-LINE-DRAWING                    Hewlett Packard Line Drawing
              X   B     HP-MATH-TECHNICAL                  Hewlett Packard Math / Technical
     X        X   8     HP-ROMAN8                          Hewlett Packard Roman8
     X        X   7     HUNGARIAN          ISO646-HU       ISO 646 Hungarian Version
     X            M     ISO2022JP                          (Equivalent to JIS7 )
     X        X   7     ITALIAN            ISO646-IT       ISO 646 Italian Version
              X   7     JAPANESE-ROMAN     ISO646-JP       JIS X 201 Roman
     X            M     JIS7-KANJI                         JIS X 0208 7-bit encoding
              X   7     KATAKANA                           JIS X 201 Katakana
     X        X   8     KOI8-CRYILLIC      KOI8-E          GOST 19768-74 Roman and Cyrillic
     X        X   8     KOI8R              KOI8-R          KOI8-Russia (RFC1489)
     X        X   8     KOI8U              KOI8-U          KOI8-Ukraine (RFC2319)
     X  X     X   S     LATIN1-ISO         ISO-8859-1      ISO 8859-1 Latin Alphabet 1
     X  X     X   S     LATIN2-ISO         ISO-8859-2      ISO 8859-2 Latin Alphabet 2
              X   S     LATIN3-ISO         ISO-8859-3      ISO 8859-3 Latin Alphabet 3
              X   S     LATIN4-ISO         ISO 8859-4      ISO 8859-4 Latin Alphabet 4
              X   S     LATIN5-ISO         ISO-8859-9      ISO 8859-9 Latin Alphabet 5
              X   S     LATIN6-ISO         ISO-8859-10     ISO 8859-10 Latin Alphabet 6
     X  X     X   S     LATIN9-ISO         ISO-8859-15     ISO 8859-15 Latin Alphabet 9
     X        X   8     MACINTOSH-LATIN                    Similar to Icelandic Quickdraw
     X        X   8     MAZOVIA                            Polish PC code page
     X        X   8     NEXTSTEP                           The NeXTSTEP character set
     X        X   7     NORWEGIAN          ISO646-NO       ISO 646 Norwegian Version
     X        X   7     PORTUGUESE         ISO646-PT       ISO 646 Portuguese Version
              X   S     QNX-CONSOLE                        Similar to CP437
     X           M,P    SHIFT-JIS-KANJI    SHIFT_JIS       PC Code 982 (Japanese)
     X        X   7     SHORT-KOI                          Uppercase-Only Roman and Cyrillic
              X   B     SNI-BRACKETS                       Siemens Nixdorf Brackets
              X   8     SNI-EURO                           Siemens Nixdorf European
              X   B     SNI-FACET                          Siemens Nixdorf Facet
              X   B     SNI-IBM                            Siemens Nixdorf Code Page characters
     X        X   7     SPANISH            ISO646-ES       ISO 646 Spanish Version
     X        X   7     SWEDISH            ISO646-SE       ISO 646 Swedish Version
     X        X   7     SWISS                              Switzerland NRC
        X     X  N/A    TRANSPARENT                        (No translation)
     X  X     X   U     UCS2               UCS-2           Unicode (ISO 10646) UCS-2
     X  X         U     UTF8               UTF-8           Unicode (ISO 10646) UTF-8

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