linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] runes

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Date:   Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:09:40 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] runes

On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
>
> It contains fixes for OLCUC handling, expanding its functionality to what I
> presume was your intention in implementing OLCUC in 1991 but couldn't be
> done then.

Yes, sadly, back then I was basically limited to Latin1, which is
obviously useless.

> With the fixes, to get the old-style OLCUC behaviour ASCII you can stty
> -iutf8; neither ANSI codes nor Unicode will be mangled anymore.  But, that's
> quite useless -- I wonder what was your reason to implement OLCUC back in
> the day even though it was obsolete by decades even then, and was already
> dropped from relevant standards.  Thus, I guess you want proper rune
> support, this pull request adds this.  I've chosen Elder Futhark as the
> variant to implement.

The question that obviously springs to mind is why you didn't make
this the default state of a tty? As it is, it seems that people have
to do extra work (and know about this feature) to get the Great Runes
enabled.

That seems user-hostile and counter-productive?

Also, sadly, gmail seems hostile to this whole thing, and marked your
email as spam. Don't ask me why.

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