Re: How is 8-bit character support enabled for the TTY driver

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:28:52 +0000 (GMT)


> Whomever owns the TTY drivers, how do you turn the damn thing on to
> allow you to display characters above 127? I am using the ncurses lib

Are you trying to do line graphics portably here ? If so you want
The ACS_* symbols (see man curs_addch)

I don't think this is anything to do with the kernel. We output however many
bits the tty port is set for. The consoles are a VT emulation with switches
to use PC extensions depending on what font set is loaded.

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