translator between GuoBiao / Big5 and HZ

PR:		ports/4622
Submitted by:	Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>

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+ 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.