Traditional Chinese Solaris STREAMS

The Traditional Chinese Solaris Operating System uses the modular nature of STREAMS to support Traditional Chinese. In addition to the traditional TTY modules, this product implements code conversion in STREAMS. Chinese input is typically supplied by many existing Traditional Chinese TTYs and is not available in the Traditional Chinese Solaris TTY environment.

The Traditional Chinese Solaris Operating System enhances the traditional modules. Its line discipline handles proper cursor movement for wide characters as well as normal protocols. The Traditional Chinese Solaris software code conversion modules convert between two different character code formats, such as between BIG5 and EUC.

Code conversion depends on the appropriate flags or parameters being set. For example, if a BIG5 code terminal is being used, the input from the terminal is converted to EUC and the output to the terminal is converted to BIG5 code.

The major modules that can be pushed onto the stream are ldterm and big5euc.

• ldterm is a generic EUC line discipline module. It processes all normal line discipline functions and also handles proper cursor movement and backspacing for wide characters (EUC)

• big5euc controls code conversion between BIG5 and EUC