linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

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Date:	Wed, 09 May 2007 15:46:36 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@...il.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Anton Vorontsov <cbou@...l.ru>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:23 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  I am pretty darn sure my name can be spelled correctly, but can it be 
> reasonably assured to be printed correctly on a reasonable subset of 
> systems out there?  

Yes. I haven't used a system on which it cannot for a number of years.

> Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make
> any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text 
> correctly?  What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 
> characters?  

I've no idea -- I haven't used the VGA text-mode console for years
either. I rarely even sit in front of a box on which it even works --
all the workstations I have these days are PowerPC, and use fbdev.

> And how about serial terminals?

It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?

>  Until then I would rather work on code, sorry.  And that is not going to 
> be any code related to UTF-8 either, but I do encourage anybody who really 
> cares about it to address any or all issues raised above. :-)

You mean the VGA text console 'issue'? I might if I had suitable
hardware, or if it was important. But it isn't something that bothers
me.

-- 
dwmw2

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