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SubjectRe: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode
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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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