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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE

On Sep 6 2007 15:06, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> sysfs, and you were on the discussion (your idea won, basically....)
>> And the way I see it, it got merged.
>> Commit 042f10ec6533e53181284c96d22ae051e49ac707
>>
>> As I further see it, this CONFIG_VT_UNICODE patch defines the starting value
>> for the default.
>>
>> E.g. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=y, you start with utf8, and can, at will, at runtime,
>> change it. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=n, you start with 8bit, and can, at will, at
>> runtime, too, change it ;-)
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in
> /etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option, not a
> compile-time default.
>
> This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default, anything
> else legacy...

Yeah. You have a command line option already, called vt.default_utf={0|1}.


Jan
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