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diff --git a/chinese/hztty/pkg-descr b/chinese/hztty/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bde75d659ac0 --- /dev/null +++ b/chinese/hztty/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + hztty + + This program turns a tty session from one encoding to another. + For example, running hztty on cxterm can allow you to read/write + Chinese in HZ format, which was not supported by cxterm. + If you have many applications in different encodings but your + favor terminal program only supports one, hztty can make life easy. + For example, hztty can your GB cxterm into a HZ terminal, a + Unicode (16bit, or UTF8, or UTF7) terminal, or a Big5 terminal. + + The idea is to open a new shell session on top of the current one + and to translate the encoding between the new tty and the orignal. + For example, if your application uses encoding A and your terminal + supports encoding B. Hztty catches the output of the application + and converts them from A to B before sending to the terminal. + Similarly, hztty converts all the terminal input from B to A before + sending to the application. |