Font or character set is my guess too.  We tried some different fonts and it 
made no difference.  

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of John McKown
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 8:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 3270 emulator display/translation oddity with windows 10

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Pommier, Rex <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> We are seeing an issue with our 3270 emulator.  It is working fine on 
> Windows 7 but we are moving to Windows 10.  We are using 2 versions of 
> the emulator, a full client and a browser based version.  We're seeing 
> the issue in both versions.  What's happening is that the horizontal 
> lines in ISPF screens are displaying as cent signs, vertical lines 
> displaying as rows of horizontal dots and other odd behavior.  I've 
> seen this before (decades ago) but it's been so long since I've seen 
> it, that the solution has long ago vanished.
>

​Sounds, to me, like a "font" issue. I.e. the codes being used by the emulator 
for the _ and | characters do not display the glyphs you're expecting.



>
> We're pretty confident it is a compatibility issue between the 
> emulator and W10 (most likely something missing from the W10 config) 
> but haven't found it.  We are working with the vendor but at this 
> point they haven't been able to recreate the issue.  I'm just throwing 
> the question out there to see if anybody has a solution for us.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rex
>

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