Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 4 May 2008 11:25:54 +0100 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Fix VT canonical input in UTF-8 mode [Was: UTF-8 fixes in comments] |
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Samuel Thibault, le Sun 04 May 2008 00:50:27 +0100, a écrit : > Willy Tarreau, le Wed 30 Apr 2008 21:49:20 +0200, a écrit : > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:08:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > 3) if I enter Alt-196, I get a "Ä". Flushing the buffer shows that od > > > > got two bytes: c3 84. > > > > > > Confirmed. > > > > > > Try init=/bin/stty -a, that will show > > > > > > -iutf8 > > > > > > So there is little wonder that canonical mode does not work as expected. > > > > > > Try init=/bin/sh, from that shell run stty iutf8. Then things will work > > > fine. The fix is thus just to make the VT's tty initial iutf8 setup > > > follow vt.default_utf8. > > > > Will try that on a more recent install. Mine's stty does not support > > this option. Your analysis makes quite a lot of sense, and such a fix > > would wipe part of my annoyances/anger with this recent change. > > Can you give the patch below a try? > Dynamic per-VT utf-8 switch should also work, provided that you reopen > the VT (i.e. log out).
Willy Tarreau, le Sun 04 May 2008 10:55:14 +0200, a écrit : > I confirm that your patch works perfectly for me. Now backspace correctly > removes multi-byte characters. My bash is still fooled though but as Alan > explained it, it's readline which has to be upgraded now.
I guess this is suitable for the stable trees of 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 (where UTF-8 is by default now).
Set IUTF8 as appropriate on VT tty open.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
--- linux/drivers/char/vt.c.orig 2008-05-04 00:37:50.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/drivers/char/vt.c 2008-05-04 00:47:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -2723,6 +2723,10 @@ static int con_open(struct tty_struct *t tty->winsize.ws_row = vc_cons[currcons].d->vc_rows; tty->winsize.ws_col = vc_cons[currcons].d->vc_cols; } + if (vc->vc_utf) + tty->termios->c_iflag |= IUTF8; + else + tty->termios->c_iflag &= ~IUTF8; release_console_sem(); vcs_make_sysfs(tty); return ret; @@ -2899,6 +2903,8 @@ int __init vty_init(void) console_driver->minor_start = 1; console_driver->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_CONSOLE; console_driver->init_termios = tty_std_termios; + if (default_utf8) + console_driver->init_termios.c_iflag |= IUTF8; console_driver->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS; tty_set_operations(console_driver, &con_ops); if (tty_register_driver(console_driver)) -- 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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