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

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Tue, 7 Dec 1999 17:29:50 -0500 (EST)


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

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