Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761631AbXEKMaT (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 08:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757284AbXEKM37 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 08:29:59 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1380 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758658AbXEKM36 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2007 08:29:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:33:35 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: David Woodhouse Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Satyam Sharma , Anton Vorontsov , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver Message-ID: <20070509203335.GA4290@ucw.cz> 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> <1178721996.2824.199.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1178721996.2824.199.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 34 Hi! > > 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. Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok? (Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users afaict?) > > And how about serial terminals? > > It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it? He probably means serial terminals... like physical vt100. I used to have one (vt302 compatible or something). Most emulators still emulate vt100, and yes, vt100 predates utf-8. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/