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  • I wonder if that could be UTF-8 you're seeing there? What happen's if you just toss something in plain ASCII, like /etc/profile with cat to the serial device connected to the terminal?
    – user260419
    Commented Apr 2, 2016 at 2:53
  • depending on the age of the terminal, it might only support VT100, not ASCII
    – Keltari
    Commented Apr 4, 2016 at 23:55
  • Actually if I try just blasting text to it over the device node, I get nothing. I'm guessing it's very particular about the baud rate used. @SamiLaine
    – Karu
    Commented Apr 5, 2016 at 3:53