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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:20:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070403162051.GB5266@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4611ACCD.5000305@gmail.com>

Hi!

> Create a variable, default_utf8, that defines the system-wide default UTF-8
> setting.  This variable can be altered via sysfs. If the variable is properly
> set, this should mimimize breakage of UTF-8 encoded consoles when doing a
> reset or echo -e '\033c' and of newly opened/allocated consoles.

HPA is right... this should be fixed in userland. Reset should reset a
console, and if you want utf-8, do \ec\ewhatever to get it.

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-03 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  1:24 Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03  4:06 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2007-04-03  5:47   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03 16:20 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-04-03 16:35   ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-04  5:39     ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-04  8:01       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-06 14:30         ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-06 15:39         ` H. Peter Anvin

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