Re: How is 8-bit character support enabled for the TTY driver
Martin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 01:26:01 +0100
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
>
> "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.
Bash is broken with respect to this. You could however use as
well pdksh-5.2.14 instead, where I have fixed those issues.
However you should prefferable get the one distributed under the
guaidiance of the www.pld.opg.pl project, since there is a minor
memmory allocation issue (which will never hurt you in interactive mode)
in it...
--
Marcin Dalecki
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