Eight-Bit terminals
An alternative to seven-bit ISO 646 national variant code sets is one of the
eight-bit code sets that are rich in the necessary characters.
There are many
eight-bit terminals available, of which many use the ISO 8859-1 code set.
This is the recommended code set for use with the
Language Supplement. A full description of
this code set can be found in the tables at the end of this section.
Among the terminals that work with the Language
Supplement are the following:
-
DEC® VT100 (and all compatible terminals)
-
DEC VT220
-
Wyse® 60
-
All terminals using the ISO 8859-1 code set, for which a terminfo
entry exists.
NOTE:
When using eight-bit terminals it is important that the stty settings
are correct, that is, no parity and using all eight bits.
Use the _8bit series in /etc/ttydefs, which
specifies that the istrip is turned off, thus
stripping off the highest bit (for example, if you
want to operate at 9600 baud, set the rate for
9600_8bit).
Next topic:
Building code set, keyboard, and font maps
Previous topic:
Changing a serial line VT100
terminfo setting
© 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 22 April 2004