linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console

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Date:	Tue, 3 Apr 2007 17:37:54 +0200
From:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
To:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
Cc:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console

Hello!

> Does whatever defines what these escapes mean, have any comment to make
> about UTF-8? If not, why can't we declare that UTF-8 mode is the "reset"
> mode, the default that would be dropped to on a full reset, and if
> anyone wanted to switch that out to non-default not-UTF-8 mode, they
> could, but that a reset will always reenable it again..?

Maybe it would be a little bit more convenient, but I doubt that such
bit of convenience justifies breaking backward compatibility.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@....cz>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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