Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757259AbXEIOrI (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:47:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754106AbXEIOq5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:46:57 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:53205 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751581AbXEIOq5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 10:46:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver From: David Woodhouse To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Satyam Sharma , Pavel Machek , Anton Vorontsov , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: <20070503213303.GH20067@zarina> <20070507140453.GD3868@ucw.cz> <1178550653.11851.191.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070507194949.GB3981@ucw.cz> <1178646751.2824.48.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 15:46:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1178721996.2824.199.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 36 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/