Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757128AbZDRVFy (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:05:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754938AbZDRVFp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:05:45 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.1]:53611 "EHLO smtp1-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754366AbZDRVFp (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:05:45 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:06:38 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org Subject: [console] CSI (128+27) vs BIG5 (and possibly others) Message-ID: <20090418210638.GU21409@const> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 617 Lines: 15 Hello, A chinese user reported that some characters don't show up fine on its console. This happens to be because character 128+27 is handled specially by the linux Console. I believe the same issues can happen with other characters sets. Since linux' terminfo makes applications use \E[ anyway, would it be ok to add an option to disable the 128+27 handling? Samuel -- 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/