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

Khimenko Victor (khim@dell.sch57.msk.ru)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 04:01:33 +0300 (MSK)


On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> "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...
>
If bash is broken why I can not see it ? I'm using bash 2.03 and all
russian filenames and such works just fine ...

P.S. Of course I said (via .inputrc) that I need support for 8bit characters
for both input and output (it's in bash's info under "Command Line Editing",
"Readline Init File", "Readline Init File Syntax": input-meta,
convert-meta, output-meta, etc).

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