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From: kato%cs.titech.junet@utokyo-relay.CSNET (Akira Kato)
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Subject: Re: Questions about kterm
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Date: 11 May 88 11:55:06 GMT
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In the (normal?) Unix environment, the tty(pty) device driver strips off
the MSB's of the characters passed through it. So you can not use `EUC',
in which the characters with MSB on indicate Kanji or other non-ascii
characters, with normal unix. Instead, you should run it on special
hacked unix, for example, Jnix from CSK or 4.3/UX from ASCII. In these
implementations, the charactes can be passed through tty/pty preserving
their MSB's. Sony NEWS's have such Unix as its OS.

They say that SUN OS 4.0 have such capabilities, but I am not sure.

Many of the utilities also strip off the MSB. So csh/awk/sed/vi/.....
should be modified, also.

Akira Kato,
Tokyo Institute of Technology
kato%cs.titech.junet@relay.cs.net