terminal (real RS232 green/black) character set

From: Mikko Nahkola (mnahkola_at_trein.ntc.nokia.com)
Date: 08/26/05 

Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:53:20 GMT

I was wondering ... is there a way to do charset conversions on a
terminal connection? Even just between two 8-bit character sets with
both sharing the 7-bit ASCII half?

I mean, I have this HP 70096 terminal connected to tty00, with terminal
type set to "scrhp", and it works (at least mostly) - except that it uses
the HP ROMAN8 charset and I'd greatly prefer ISO-8859-1 or -15 ... ROMAN8
isn't exactly common nowadays.

(Have to look at the cursor addressing modes too, I do have the manual
for it.)

IIRC HP-UX (which is what these are usually used with) does have such a
conversion layer - but it has STREAMS terminal devices and full locale
support otherwise too. 

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Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com>
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