Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Unicode console patch | Date | Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:29:37 -0800 (PST) |
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> >Please don't extend TIOCLINUX. It was a bad mistake to begin with, > >and furthermore, we're trying to move away from ioctl()s (ioctl()s > >were used because most changes affected *all* consoles. Per-console > >changes should be done with escape codes.) > > It is very useful to have posibilities to get the state of > translation related variables. Imo we don't have yet the wide UTF support > (in bash, vi, etc) just because there is not such posibility.
That is definitely true.
> In any case the new console driver will be in 2.3 and imho it is not > a bad idea to have this posibilities in 2.2 as well. May be better > do it through the ESC sequences, but imo such posibility realy > needed. The ESC sequences allow to use this posibility not only on > local console, but through telnet or ssh conection, etc. I think I > can do this, but what the question - which ESC sequences have to be > used to request this information and what the format of response > sequences ?
Exactly. I'm working on it.
-hpa
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