Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:29:19 +0600 |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode > > WP describes these control codes as: "The original meaning of those > characters was to switch to a different character set and back. This > was used, for instance, in the Russian character set known as KOI7, > where SO starts printing Russian letters, and SI starts printing Latin > letters again."
Since KOI7 is not used by any glibc locale, your use case is now extinct. I think that, unless someone finds out a different use case, these SI and SO characters should be deactivated completely (and not just in unicode mode).
-- Alexander E. Patrakov
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