Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 19:58:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix to virtual terminal UTF-8 mode handling |
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Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > This patch fixes a bug in the virtual terminal driver, whereby the UTF-8 > mode is reset to "off" following a console reset, such as might be > delivered by mingetty, screen, vim, etc...
Is it a bug? What did earlier kernels do? 2.4.x?
> Rather than resetting to hardcoded "0", it gets reset on or off, as > determined by a new sysctl located in /proc/tty/vt/default_utf8_mode. > This patch is best accompanied with an addition of the following line to > the system's init scripts: > > echo 1 >/proc/tty/vt/default_utf8_mode > > Following this, all resets to the console will leave it with UTF-8 mode > on. > > The default behaviour of this sysctl is as before, without the patch. > Namely, UTF-8 mode is switched off on reset. [I.e applying this patch > does not affect default behaviour].
Presumably userspace knows what mode the user wants the terminal to be using. Shouldn't userspace be resetting that mode after a reset?
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