linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs

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Message-ID: <20070406143019.GQ26707@cel.leo>
Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:30:19 +0100
From:	Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@...nerd.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	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>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:40AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> You could do that... during development series. But this is
> userspace-visible API change, and those are not allowed during stable.
> 
> ...and having /sysctl configuring inital state for reset is just plain
> ugly.

Well, how else would you suggest to do it? Bearing in mind all other
terminal emulators (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and so on) all have
other out-of-band ways to determine this - config files, menu options,
locale variables,... None of those are particularlly viable for the
kernel. I vote this is the closest thing we've got.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

leonerd@...nerd.org.uk
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http://www.leonerd.org.uk/

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