Re: How is 8-bit character support enabled for the TTY driver
Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 15:25:39 -0700
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> > Whomever owns the TTY drivers, how do you turn the damn thing on to
> > allow you to display characters above 127?
> [SNIPPED]
>
> #include <termios.h>
> #include <ioctls.h>
>
> struct termios term;
> ioctl(1, TCGETS, &term);
> term.c_cflag |= CS8;
> ioctl(1, TCSETS, &term);
>
> The terminal is now 8-bit clean.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
Sorry Dick, but this doesn't work with bash. It still outputs
characters below 127. I tried thi already.
Jeff
>
> Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
> Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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