Allen asks:

> Does anyone know how/if Cyrillic characters can be displayed using
Reflection
> 6.0 connecting to MPE.  I have a MS-Word document but I cannot seem to save
> it in an encoded format and uploaded to the HP and still get it to display
> correctly in Reflection.  Any ideas?

The basic problem, I suspect, is that you are scrambling the encoding going
between your PC and the HP3000. In MS Word, you're most likely using a variant
of the ISO Latin encoding scheme, but where the Cyrillic characters have been
put into the Latin alphabet's places, just as the Symbol set has been for the
Greek alphabet. (Look at the Windows Character Map for the Symbols and compare
it to a standard MS font such as Arial).

If you upload that that document using Reflection, Reflection is likely to
autotranslate the ISO Latin positions into HP's Roman 8/9 encodings (depending
on how you have your settings configured). That's all right so long as you
never attempt to read the file on the HP3000 itself. When you bring it back down
to your PC, using Reflection again, Reflection will autotranslate all of the
material back into its original ISO Latin positions in the character table and
you should be all right.

However, if you've uploaded the MS Word file to the HP3000 using a process
like FTP, FTP doesn't autotranslate anything. The text is on the HP3000 in an MS
encoding. When you attempt to download this version using Reflection, you
will likely get the autotranslation mode by default -- and a completely scrambled
character set.

You should be able to make the entire process work in Reflection, even if
your Cryllic document is encoded using a Unicode (2-byte) format. You just have
to ensure that both the uptransport and downtransport of the document is being
done in a symmetric manner.

Wirt Atmar

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