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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46113ED6.4060005@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46110F88.5040905@gmail.com>

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Resetting the console, either by ANSI escape sequences or by the reset utility,
> will drop the console back to legacy (non-UTF-8) mode. Fix this by leaving the
> field vc_data.vc_utf untouched in reset_terminal(). In addition, a global
> variable (default_utf8) which defines system-wide UTF-8 setting is created.
> This variable can be adjusted via sysfs.

If you're going to introduce a system-wide default, instead of issuing 
the appropriate escape code, then I would argue it should still be 
forced (to the default) when issuing a console reset.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-02 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-02 14:13 [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-03  0:16   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03  0:23     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-03  0:53       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03  0:55       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 21:14         ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-02 19:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-03  0:16   ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-03 11:41 ` Martin Mares
2007-04-03 14:51   ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-03 15:37     ` Martin Mares
2007-04-04  5:42       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-04  8:12         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-04  8:26           ` Paul LeoNerd Evans
2007-04-04 16:53         ` Martin Mares

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