Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:38:15 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: How is 8-bit character support enabled for the TTY driver |
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Thank goodness for Alan! This helps, and is exactly the info I was looking for. The folks at Caldera were a little confused and thought there was an IOCTL or something with the TTY driver. I looked through the source, and couldn't see anything obvious so I thought I would ask.
Thanks.
Jeff
Alan Cox 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 > > 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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