DOCUMENT:Q165572 13-JUN-2001 [sna] TITLE :5250 Applet Issues with SNA 3.0 PRODUCT :Microsoft SNA Server PROD/VER:WINDOWS:3.0 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbnetwork ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft SNA Server, version 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article only applies to the SNA Server 5250 Applet shipped with SNA Server. 1. 5250 Applet Cannot Display DBCS Characters Correctly Which Are Input from Keyboard (Win32) 2. 5250 Applet Terminates Trnsdt.dll when It Exits (Win16) 3. 5250 Applet Displays Shift-Out Code (All Platforms) 4. 5250 Applet Has Fixed Font Name (All Platforms) 5. 5250 Applet Should Support Greek and Central European Code Pages (All Platforms) 6. 5250 Applet Does Not Support AltGr or Alt-State Input for Foreign Locales SYMPTOMS ======== 1. 5250 Applet Cannot Display DBCS Characters Correctly Which Are Input From Keyboard (Win32) SYMPTOMS The Win5250.exe program did not display DBCS characters correctly when they were typed on a keyboard. This did not occur if using cut and paste. CAUSE The Win5250 applet was processing VK_PROCESSKEY code when it receives WM_KEYDOWN message on Win32 platforms. RESOLUTION The Win5250 applet now ignores VK_PROCESSKEY when it receives WM_KEYDOWN messages. STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. 2. 5250 Applet Terminates Trnsdt.dll When It Exits (Win16) SYMPTOMS When the 5250 Applet exits, it terminates Trsndt.dll even if another module is calling TrnsDt. This problem occurs only in Windows 3.x (16-bit) using the Windows 3.x SNA Server client. It does not occur when using any of the 32-bit clients. CAUSE Win5250.exe issued FreeLibrary API to the same instance twice when it exited. STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. 3. 5250 Applet Displays Shift-Out Code (All Platforms) SYMPTOMS When DBCS data is input from the keyboard, the 5250 Applet displays the shift-out code (0x0e) directly. It should be converted to a space (0x20) character. CAUSE The Win5250.exe program was displaying the EBCDIC shift-out code incorrectly. STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. 4. 5250 Applet Has a Fixed Font Name (All Platforms) SYMPTOMS The 5250 applet is unable to display Japanese messages on the status bar. CAUSE The 5250 applet was designed to use a fixed font. STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. 5. 5250 Applet should support Greek and Central European Code Pages (All Platforms) SYMPTOMS The Win5250 applet shipped with SNA 3.0 is unable to support Greek Host code pages or Central European code pages. RESOLUTION The 5250 applet now supports the correct font for different Host Code Page Selection. The following is the corresponding font for Greek, Greek Modern, Czech, and Polish: Windows NT 4.0/Windows 95 Windows NT 3.51/Windows 3.x ------------------------- ------------------------------ Greek Courier New Courier New Greek (GREEK_CHARSET) (ANSI_CHARSET/Courg.ttf) Greek Modern Courier New Courier New Greek (GREEK_CHARSET) (ANSI_CHARSET/Courg.ttf) Czech Courier New Courier New CE (EASTEUROPE_CHARSET) (ANSI_CHARSET/Cecour.ttf) Polish Courier New Courier New CE (EASTEUROPE_CHARSET) (ANSI_CHARSET/Cecour.ttf) STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. 6. 5250 Applet Does Not Support AltGr Or Alt-State Input For Foreign Locales SYMPTOMS When running the NT Win5250 applet, the Alt-state and AltGr states were not being processed correctly. This was first noticed when Setup for Polish keyboards. Some of what you would see are as follows: AltGr - s shows d instead of d dashed. AltGr - f shows nothing (Notepad behaved the same way) AltGr - g shows nothing AltGr - 1& 2 shows ?~ instead of (v~) AltGr - 1& 6 shows ~ instead of (ogonek and then ~ ) AltGr - 7& 0 shows ?` instead of (~`) CAUSE The Win5250 applet was not checking the HostCodePage configuration. STATUS An update to SNA Server 3.0 is available to correct this problem. STATUS ====== Microsoft has confirmed these to be problems in SNA Server version 3.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft SNA Server 3.0 U.S. Service Pack. 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