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

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2007 10:12:06 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
cc:	Martin Mares <mj@....cz>,
	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console


On Apr 4 2007 13:42, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>> 
>> > 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

^^ Which is ok by me.



Jan
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