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

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Date:	Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:23:40 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console


On Apr 3 2007 08:16, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
>That would be the cleanest and purest behavior. But it's possible to set
>one console to UTF-8 and another to legacy mode.

The question would be: why would you want to have mixed consoles?
Switching to UTF8 IMO does not take away any characters, and I mean
no-framebuffer 80x25 that is limited to 256 glyphs.


Jan
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