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

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Message-Id: <1175665364.4519.10.camel@daplas>
Date:	Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:42:44 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>
Cc:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:37 +0200, Martin Mares wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > Does whatever defines what these escapes mean, have any comment to make
> > about UTF-8? If not, why can't we declare that UTF-8 mode is the "reset"
> > mode, the default that would be dropped to on a full reset, and if
> > anyone wanted to switch that out to non-default not-UTF-8 mode, they
> > could, but that a reset will always reenable it again..?
> 
> Maybe it would be a little bit more convenient, but I doubt that such
> bit of convenience justifies breaking backward compatibility.

Please note that I have dropped this patch in favor of this one:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/2/422

This patch behaves exactly as the one Paul posted before.

Tony


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