Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!utokyo-relay.CSNET!kato%cs.titech.junet From: kato%cs.titech.junet@utokyo-relay.CSNET (Akira Kato) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Questions about kterm Message-ID: <8805111155.AA00590@nirvana.cs.titech.junet> Date: 11 May 88 11:55:06 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 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