Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 31 2007 16:18, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
>> We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
>> in the kernel.
>>
>> The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in unicode
>> mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and the keyboard
>> driver.
>
> I would prefer to:
> - make default_utf=1 in the source
> - add "default_utf8 ? VC_UNICODE : VC_XLATE" to the keyboard code
> as your patch does
> - and do away with the new CONFIG_ option, since, surprise, surprise,
> you can change it at runtime, so there is no need to do it
> at compile-time too.
>
I concur.
-hpa
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