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

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:32:24 +0100

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 12:48:34PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> 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
> for building our nwfs utils with a CWorthy look and feel menuing
> interface, along with some management tools, and I cannot get characters
> aove 127 to display. If I use the VCS interface, then I can get it to
> work properly, but VCS screens cannot be accessed from remote terminals

So, I understand you are saying that the Linux kernel works fine
and your tools fail. That may be. But then why post to linux-kernel?

By default all is well. You might check stty (cs8 bit), or the
eightBitInput/eightBitOutput resources for xterm, or the settings
for your shell or whatever settings are relevant for the environment
where you are trying to do your stuff. Some versions of flex require
the -8 flag. telnet might require a -8 flag. Etc. There is a HOWTO.

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