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

Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:38:15 -0700

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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