linux-kernel - Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode

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Message-ID: <4BCC68BF.6090300@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:29:19 +0600
From:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode
>
> WP describes these control codes as: "The original meaning of those
> characters was to switch to a different character set and back.  This
> was used, for instance, in the Russian character set known as KOI7,
> where SO starts printing Russian letters, and SI starts printing Latin
> letters again."

Since KOI7 is not used by any glibc locale, your use case is now 
extinct. I think that, unless someone finds out a different use case, 
these SI and SO characters should be deactivated completely (and not 
just in unicode mode).

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

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