Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755022AbXIFOGy (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:06:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751686AbXIFOGr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:06:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35559 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751660AbXIFOGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Sep 2007 10:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: <46E00962.7080903@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:06:26 +0100 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE References: <20070831201820.GF31970@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <46D9D587.9020605@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 29 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > sysfs, and you were on the discussion (your idea won, basically....) > And the way I see it, it got merged. > Commit 042f10ec6533e53181284c96d22ae051e49ac707 > > As I further see it, this CONFIG_VT_UNICODE patch defines the > starting value for the default. > > E.g. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=y, you start with utf8, and can, at will, at > runtime, change it. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=n, you start with 8bit, and can, > at will, at runtime, too, change it ;-) > Hmmm... Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in /etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option, not a compile-time default. This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default, anything else legacy... -hpa - 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/