Transferring display data from an HP3000 to a PC with MS Windows has been relatively easy, for the
American-English customer. Common methods are FTP, email, and file-transfer from within your terminal
emulator. The rest of the world that uses a larger alphabet that may, for example, contain the letters áéíóú,
may wonder why, after a transfer of data, these letters appear as ÄÅÕÆÇ.

The computer uses numeric values to represent letters. A Character Set is a definition of these values and
their associated letters. The HP3000 usually uses the ROMAN-8 character set for these extended-ASCII
letters (refer to you Native Language Support Reference Manual (NLS)). Windows usually uses the ISO-
Latin1 character set. The value assigned to a character may be different in each set as can be seen in this
example.

      Character       ROMAN-8       ISO-Latin1
         a              65             65
         á              196            225
         à              200            224

Reflection FTP understands this issue and does the conversion for you. But if you use another method to
move data from the HP3000 to Windows, most likely you will need to translate your display data for proper
representation.

On the web at www.sambaix.com, you can find the program A2AE, which is a translator program that can run
on either the HP3000 (before data transfer) or the PC (after data transfer). This program is written by
Friedrich Harasleben and is provided free to the public. Below is a sample run. A2AE supports the following
character sets:

 ROMAN8 CP850 PC8 LATIN1 ANSI

.

      :print test1
      aeiou
      áéíóú
      :run a2aep;info="TEST1 TEST2 ROMAN8 LATIN1"

      A2AE - Version 1.04 (c) Harasleben 1993-97
      ROMAN8 - CP850 - PC8 - LATIN1 - ANSI conversion
            Converting from ROMAN8 to LATIN1
            characters read     : 12
            characters converted: 5
      End Run
      :listf test@,2

      FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----
                        SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX

      TEST1              80B  FA           2     204522  16       16  1 32
      TEST2             256B  FA           2       4095   1      256  1  8

      :print test2
      aeiou
      ÃÕÚµº