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

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Date:	Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:20:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode


On Monday 2010-04-19 16:31, Alan Cox wrote:
>> 
>> I am proposing the patch below for inclusion.
>> Also pullable via
>> 	git://dev.medozas.de/linux siso
>
>It seems to do a lot of other things as well. Can you split out just the
>relevant bit ?

It's really just the top commit. Perhaps I should rebase it to a
v2.6.34-rcX tag so that shortlog does what one expects.

Alexander mentioned:

[quoting the gmane nntp posting which was stripped of To:s and Cc:s]
>
>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).

Alan, do you agree that the entire SI/SO can/should be removed?
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