If the ability of SecureCRT or CRT to handle international character
sets is important to your organization, here are some pointers
on how to set up your systems.
The following elements of your client and host systems need
to be configured:
- Set your Windows system to the language needed
- Configure the remote system's shell for the language
used
- Select a font that provides the needed character set
Having Windows configured for the language you will use (normally
done at installation time) allows you to choose usable fonts
and character encodings as well as provide the correct keyboard
configuration.
To configure the remote shell, set the language used in the
shell. For example, if you wanted to use Greek input characters,
here is how to configure the Bash shell environment under
RedHat Linux 7.1:
$ LANG=el_GR
$ export LANG
Once fonts are installed in Windows, select a font in SecureCRT
with the appropriate encoding (for Greek, Courier New and
Lucida Console will work). Font and character encoding settings
are found in the "Appearance" category of the "Session
Options" dialog.
Chinese
Entering characters in Chinese requires choosing between two
character sets: Simplified Chinese for mainland China, codepage
GB2312, and the "Big 5" Traditional Chinese codepage
for Taiwan and Hong Kong. For Simplified Chinese set the font
used in SecureCRT to NSimSun and the character encoding to
Chinese_GB2312. For Big 5 set the fonts to MingLui and the
character encoding to Chinese_BIG5.
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