Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755198Ab0DSO3o (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:29:44 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36459 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754960Ab0DSO3n (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:29:43 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org connect(): No such file or directory From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Subject: Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:29:19 +0600 Message-ID: <4BCC68BF.6090300@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.50.113.200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100410 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 16 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode > > WP describes these control codes as: "The original meaning of those > characters was to switch to a different character set and back. This > was used, for instance, in the Russian character set known as KOI7, > where SO starts printing Russian letters, and SI starts printing Latin > letters again." Since KOI7 is not used by any glibc locale, your use case is now extinct. I think that, unless someone finds out a different use case, these SI and SO characters should be deactivated completely (and not just in unicode mode). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- 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/