Terminal Support for Latin-1, Latin-2, or KOI8-R

For terminals that support only Latin-1 (ISO8859-1), Latin-2 (ISO8859-2), or KOI8-R, you should have the following STREAMS configuration:

head <-> ttcompat <->  ldterm <->  u8lat1 <-> TTY

This configuration is only for terminals that support Latin-1. For Latin-2 terminals, replace the STREAMS module u8lat1 with u8lat2. For KOI8-R terminals, replace the module with u8koi8.

Make sure you already have the STREAMS module loaded into the kernel.

To set up the STREAMS configuration shown above, use strchg(1M), as shown in the second command line of the example:

system% cat > tmp/mystreams 
ttcompat
ldterm
u8lat1
ptem
^D
system% strchg -f /tmp/mystreams

Be sure that you are either root or the owner of the device when you use strchg(1). To see the current configuration, use strconf(1) as follows:

system% strconf
ttcompat
ldterm
u8lat1
ptem
pts
system%

To reset the original configuration, set the STREAMS configuration as follows:

system% cat > /tmp/orgstreams
ttcompat
ldterm
ptem
^D
system% strchg -f /tmp/orgstreams