Specifying the Character Set

You can specify the number of data bits per character for the current vty session and for all subsequent sessions on the specified vty lines. This feature allows you to display international characters on the terminal’s screen.

data-character-bits

• Use to set the number of bits per character on the terminal’s screen for all future sessions on the specified lines.
• Use the default setting, 8, to view the full set of 8-bit international characters. Be sure that the software on other devices in the network also supports international characters.
• Set the number of bits to 7 to view only characters in the standard ASCII set.
• Example

  host1(config)#line vty 1 3

  host1(config-line)#data-character-bits 7

• There is no no version.
• See data-character-bits.

terminal data-character-bits

• Use to set the number of bits per character on the terminal’s screen for the current session.
• Use the default setting, 8, to view the full set of 8-bit international characters. Be sure that software on other devices in the network also supports international characters.
• Set the number of bits to 7 to view only characters in the standard ASCII set.
• Example

  host1#terminal data-character-bits 7

• There is no no version.
• See terminal data-character-bits.

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