linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset

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Message-Id: <1175506245.4431.0.camel@daplas>
Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:30:45 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:31 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Apr 2 2007 14:49, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 20:13 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >> Allow for the palette to be exposed and changed via sysfs. A call to
> >> /usr/bin/reset will slurp the new definitions in for the current
> >> console.
> >
> >I like this. The escape sequences to change the palette does not stay
> >permanently.
> 
> As much as you like it, there is a slight problem with it. Linux will
> currently throw virtual consoles out of UTF8 mode when reset is called.
> 
> Also see:
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/289
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/297
> 
> These posts argue about terminfo being the culprit. But how can terminfo 
> be at fault, when `echo -en "\ec"` triggers it too?
> 
> Since I am in a patch mood, here's my stance/patch, which is compile and 
> run tested and behaves as expected (both with `echo` and `reset`).

Tested and works here too.

Tony


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