On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:49:04PM -0600, elijah wright wrote: > dumb terminals, at least in the US, are ascii-only. no clue whether > anyone ever manufactured terminals that did non-roman-alphabetic or > non-ascii characters. i would think "maybe", but i don't know for sure.
At least not this sort of terminal which uses EBCDIC as nativ charset
and the kernel needs to convert that and only knows a subset of
US-ASCII.
Bastian
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Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
-- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8
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