Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Dec 1997 19:45:57 +0100 (MET) | From | Qrczak <> | Subject | Re: Default character set of the Linux console (fwd) |
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On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Krzysztof G. Baranowski wrote:
> Personally I think that keeping custom maps after \Ec is a really bad > idea, as \Ec should reset console to "definitely usable" state, and > when custom map is loaded, you cannot guarantee this.
For you ISO-8859-1 is a usable state and ISO-8859-2 are strange foreign alphabets. Now, for me ISO-8859-2 is normal and ISO-8859-1 is simply one of the foreign sets :-)
I can agree that ISO-8859-1 is some sort of the default. OK. But there _must_ be a way for using ISO-8859-2 with all those programs which don't care about character sets and reset the console instead of clearing the screen.
If a screen font contains only garbage, the state is, hmm, not usable. But ^[c doesn't load the default font. That's good for me, because I know that I've loaded ISO-8859-2, not garbage, and I want it almost all the time.
I agree that it's good when there is a method for resetting everything to a known state. But ^[c is sometimes overused and if I simply load and activate a custom map without hacking terminfo or the kernel, sooner or later all beautiful Polish letters (except those without accents) are gone. So either there should be a different, stronger reset, and ^[c wouldn't touch the map then, or one could decide if ^[c should change the map, or one could define which map ^[c activates, or...
Remember: Not everyone wants ISO-8859-1.
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