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Customizing device character mapping

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:


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).


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