Banners and MOTD special charatcers

[littlebrook]

I am trying to update our Banners and MOTD on our routers/switches (various models 2900s/2800s/2960s/3750s/4500s/6500s).  As I am in Canada I need to create them in both French and English, the French has special characters such as è or à and many others(all in notepad).  When I past them in to the configs Cisco has decided to change the special characters.

  Is there a way I can get the configs to accept my special characters?

thanks for any help.

[Peter Paluch]

Hello,

I have not used that myself so please be sure to test this change on a lab equipment before rolling it out into production, but I believe that adding the following two commands to the corresponding line section should allow you to use special characters:

international
exec-character-bits 8

Be aware, though, that the client's terminal will probably also need to be configured for the same character set used by you in order to display the special characters correctly, so even though your banners will be entered correctly, they may not display correctly to all clients.

Best regards,
Peter

[littlebrook]

thanks Peter,

  I am checking on my 6509 IOS ver. 12.3(33) SXI14 and neither the commands are there in either global or privileged mode?

any ideas?

[Peter Paluch · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Sorry for not being entirely clear. See the example:

enable
configure terminal
line con 0
 international
 exec-character-bits 8
line vty 0 15
 international
 exec-character-bits 8
end

After digging through documentation, I've also found an alternative approach:

enable
configure terminal
default-value exec-character-bits 8
line con 0
 international
line vty 0 15
 international
end

Would either of this work for you?

Best regards,
Peter

[littlebrook]

Thanks Peter - worked and worked.

 we mulled it over for a couple of minutes and before you gave me the step by step I couldn't convince myself to add them to the line con and vty's.:-)

thanks for your help !!!!!

[Peter Paluch]

Hi,

Glad to have helped :) You are very much welcome!

Best regards,
Peter