linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 19:15:40 +0530
From:	"Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@...il.com>
To:	"Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	"Anton Vorontsov" <cbou@...l.ru>, "Greg KH" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

On 5/11/07, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who
> > has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok?
>
> This is a bug in fbdev and currently under discussion as there is no sane
> reason to enforce the 512 symbol limit in the fbdev case (especially on a
> large modern system)
>
> > (Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users
> > afaict?)
>
> Fedora uses X.

I run FC5 and even _without_ X (on the tty1 console, for example), UTF-8
source files turn out just _fine_ indeed. And I checked vim, emacs and
*even* nano.
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