Re: Any reason for no ostrip?

From: Yar Tikhiy (yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su)
Date: 10/06/05

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    Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 15:21:05 +0400
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>

    On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:32:05PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
    > In message <20051006085716.GB66584@comp.chem.msu.su>, Yar Tikhiy writes:
    > >All,
    > >
    > >I've been missing the ostrip terminal option for quite a while.
    > >Frankly, it is of use mostly to Cyrillic users because our main
    > >Unix encoding, KOI8, has a funny property: It can be readable if
    > >mapped to US-ASCII by stripping the high bit, so if you happen to
    > >land at a terminal w/o Cyrillic support, you still can read your
    > >mail if you manage to strip the 8th bit off. Unfortunately, far
    > >from all terminals, hardware as well as software, have an option
    > >to strip the 8th bit. Since we have istrip already, adding ostrip
    > >would be just complementary. Any objections?
    >
    > Couldn't you get the same result with cs7 and space parity ?

    I failed to find how to set space parity with stty or termios,
    but cs7 and cstopb seem just ignored when working over pty (ssh)
    --I still get 8-bit chars on my end of the connection. I've had
    no chance to check this with a serial connection yet, but pty is
    most interesting today anyway. 

    -- 
Yar
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