On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 21:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Apr 2 2007 22:13, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > >Resetting the console, either by ANSI escape sequences or by the reset > >utility, > >will drop the console back to legacy (non-UTF-8) mode. Fix this by leaving > >the > >field vc_data.vc_utf untouched in reset_terminal(). In addition, a global > >variable (default_utf8) which defines system-wide UTF-8 setting is created. > >This variable can be adjusted via sysfs. > > > >This is based from patches by Jan Engelhardt and Paul LeoNerd Evans. > > > >Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >--- > > > > drivers/char/vt.c | 4 +++- > > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > BTW. Is it feasible to make utf8 the default (static int default_utf8 = 1) > or is that likely to break some installs?
I guess it would, but most if not all major distribs are moving/have moved to utf-8. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
