TinyTERM 4.40 added support for the UTF-8 character set. TinyTERM 4.42 added Unicode support for Big5, GB2312, Shift-JIS, and KOI-8. This expanded the languages that could be displayed to include Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

To use the available double-byte characters, you need an appropriate font installed in Windows. For example, you might use PMingLiU.ttf or simsun.ttc for Chinese support.

Once you have installed the right font for the language you want to display, open the TinyTERM Session Properties and go to the Fonts tab. Add the font to the list in TinyTERM, and change its matching code page to Unicode Font. Apply the change, but don’t click OK yet.

Go to the Code Page tab next. In the lower left, there’s a drop-down box. Select the appropriate Unicode option there, then click OK and save the settings. Double-byte characters should display correctly after that.

TERM for UNIX/Linux has no font settings. It relies on the operating system for all character display.

For more information about Unicode, see the official Unicode web site.

CR 334, Japanese added in TinyTERM 4.40
CR 531, Unicode added in TinyTERM 4.40
CR 667, enhancement request for UTF-8 support in TERM for UNIX/Linux

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