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

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Message-ID: <46113ED6.4060005@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:18 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Resetting the console, either by ANSI escape sequences or by the reset utility,
> will drop the console back to legacy (non-UTF-8) mode. Fix this by leaving the
> field vc_data.vc_utf untouched in reset_terminal(). In addition, a global
> variable (default_utf8) which defines system-wide UTF-8 setting is created.
> This variable can be adjusted via sysfs.

If you're going to introduce a system-wide default, instead of issuing 
the appropriate escape code, then I would argue it should still be 
forced (to the default) when issuing a console reset.

	-hpa
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