Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Date | 19 Jun 2004 16:12:00 -0400 |
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David Woodhouse writes:
> Please don't do that -- it makes printing UTF-8 impossible. > While I'd not argue that now is the time to start outputting > UTF-8 all over the place, I wouldn't accept that it's a good > time to _prevent_ it either, as your patch would do. > > If you want to post-process printk output, don't do it in the kernel.
It is dangerous to let the 0x9b character go out to a serial console. It means the same as ESC [ does when you have a normal 8-bit terminal.
Non-cannonical UTF-8 encoding for ESC and other troublesome characters may also cause problems.
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