From: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Liljeberg) Subject: Re: NEW: Support for Canadian French (CF) Keyboard Date: 5 Oct 1992 20:24:09 GMT
In article <1992Oct5.025000.18463@sobeco.com> alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence) wrote:
> In <1992Oct5.013308.21682@wam.umd.edu> joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
>
>>BTW, is Linux 8-bit clean? What about bash? For example, can I
>>modify keyboard driver to use 8-bit chars, and then have 8-bit char
>>file names?
Yes. The keyboard driver already supports 8-bit characters. So does the
console device and the tty driver (I'm not sure, if 8-bit characters are
legal in file names, though).
> From what I have seen so far, characters greater than 0x7F are rejected
> at the shell prompt. I don't know yet if this is bash, or the cooked
> I/O routines. I suspect the latter.
I don't know about bash, but tcsh can handle 8-bit characters. All
you need to do is 'setenv LANG ISO8859-1'. Oh, and make sure the tty
doesn't strip the eight bit.
Mika