Configuring STREAMS for Traditional Chinese Solaris Software

To explicitly configure the STREAMS module for a Big5 terminal use:

setterm -x big5

This usage is independent of terminfo.

Further consider using a VT-100 terminal (which is Big5 compatible) on a system with an entry like the following (which is appropriate for such a terminal) in the terminfo database:

vt100-b|VT-100-compatible with Big-5 chars,
lines#40, .csin=E(BE)IE[?1h, csin=E(BE)I, devt=PACKBig5,
s0ds=E(H, s1ds=E$@, s2ds=E(H, use=cit600,

A configuring command that references this entry would be:

setterm -t vt100-b

For setterm to work properly in this application, /usr/share/lib/setterm/zh_TW/conf.file must contain an entry that corresponds to the device type. This entry gives setterm instructions for placing appropriate conversion modules in the TTY stream; for example:

#
big5throw \
			popto zs|mcp|mti|ptem \
			push big5euc \
			push ldterm \
			push ttcompat \
			run {stty defeucw} \
			catch
#
GenericEUC|EUCthrow \
			popto zs|mcp|mti|ptem \
			push ldterm \
			push ttcompat \
			run {stty defeucw} \
			catch
#
ASCIIthrow \
			popto zs|mcp|mti|ptem \
			push ldterm \
			push ttcompat \
			catch
# 

For more information, refer to the setterm(1) man page. Once configured, conversion is enabled by default. Applications can also set features through ioctl() function calls.