Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:10:13 +0100
From: Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix to virtual terminal UTF-8 mode handling
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 23:10:30 -0400
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:

> I'd be inclined to think that this is more of a terminfo issue.  If you
> want your terminal to reset into UTF-8, use a terminfo entry with the
> appropriate command string instead of the current one - this would be
> the 'rs1' capability:
>=20
>   rs1=3D\Ec\E]R
>=20
> That's reset console to default, reset palette.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Doing it that way means that any
program running on a host whose terminfo is so configured, would force
UTF-8 mode on, when it issues a reset to a Linux console, regardless of
which machine that is on (e.g. telnet, ssh,...). Furthermore, it would do
so regardless of whether we want UTF-8 mode, or not. Again with my patch
it is a user configurable matter whether they want UTF-8 or not. This
terminfo entry forces it to happen.

That said, I am planning a whole bunch of other changes to terminfo; my
repeated wrestling with xterm recently on the regard of modified cursor
keys (e.g. Ctrl+left) has lead me to conclude the whole system needs a
bit of an overhaul... But that's somewhat off-topic to the kernel.. :)

--=20
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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

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