On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:35 +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 04:20:52PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > HPA is right... this should be fixed in userland. Reset should reset a > > console, and if you want utf-8, do \ec\ewhatever to get it. > > As I've already said elsewhere, does anything say that "reset" means > that UTF-8 is turned off, or merely reset back to some known state? I > personally would consider that UTF-8 being on is the default, and if > something wants it off it should ask specifically.. > > Consider any other terminal emulator, such as those running on X11; when > they're reset, they know to keep UTF-8 mode turned on, because it said > so in their config, or in the locale. Kernel doesn't really have nice > access to the LANG environment variable, but we can give it something > similar; namely, via a module parameter.
I agree with Paul. Reset or RIS is (R)eset to (I)nitial (S)tate, represented as ESC 06/03. "Initial state" is defined in ECMA-48 as the state of the device after it was made operational. It doesn't necessarily mean that the "initial state" is the safest configuration. So, if this "initial state" includes enabling UTF-8, then the device has to go into UTF-8 upon invoking RIS. 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/
