linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT

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Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:06:26 +0100
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> sysfs, and you were on the discussion (your idea won, basically....)
> And the way I see it, it got merged.
> Commit 042f10ec6533e53181284c96d22ae051e49ac707
> 
> As I further see it, this CONFIG_VT_UNICODE patch defines the 
> starting value for the default.
> 
> E.g. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=y, you start with utf8, and can, at will, at 
> runtime, change it. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=n, you start with 8bit, and can, 
> at will, at runtime, too, change it ;-)
> 

Hmmm...

Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in 
/etc/sysctl.conf.  My second preference would be a command-line option, 
not a compile-time default.

This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default, 
anything else legacy...

	-hpa
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