Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 19:15:40 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver |
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On 5/11/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who > > has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok? > > This is a bug in fbdev and currently under discussion as there is no sane > reason to enforce the 512 symbol limit in the fbdev case (especially on a > large modern system) > > > (Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users > > afaict?) > > Fedora uses X.
I run FC5 and even _without_ X (on the tty1 console, for example), UTF-8 source files turn out just _fine_ indeed. And I checked vim, emacs and *even* nano. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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