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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:30:19 +0100
From: Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:40AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> You could do that... during development series. But this is
> userspace-visible API change, and those are not allowed during stable.
>=20
> ...and having /sysctl configuring inital state for reset is just plain
> ugly.

Well, how else would you suggest to do it? Bearing in mind all other
terminal emulators (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and so on) all have
other out-of-band ways to determine this - config files, menu options,
locale variables,... None of those are particularlly viable for the
kernel. I vote this is the closest thing we've got.

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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