Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:35:18 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console |
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Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > Resetting the console, either by ANSI escape sequences or by the reset utility, > will drop the console back to legacy (non-UTF-8) mode. Fix this by leaving the > field vc_data.vc_utf untouched in reset_terminal(). In addition, a global > variable (default_utf8) which defines system-wide UTF-8 setting is created. > This variable can be adjusted via sysfs.
If you're going to introduce a system-wide default, instead of issuing the appropriate escape code, then I would argue it should still be forced (to the default) when issuing a console reset.
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