Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > Considering Linux only -- does our text-mode VGA console driver make
> > any effort to print an arbitrary UTF-8-encoded text 
> > correctly?  What does it do when it runs beyond the limit of 512 
> > characters?  
> 
> I've no idea -- I haven't used the VGA text-mode console for years
> either. I rarely even sit in front of a box on which it even works --
> all the workstations I have these days are PowerPC, and use fbdev.

Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who
has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok?

(Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users
afaict?)

> > And how about serial terminals?
> 
> It works fine over serial terminals. Why wouldn't it?

He probably means serial terminals... like physical vt100. I used to
have one (vt302 compatible or something).  Most emulators still
emulate vt100, and yes, vt100 predates utf-8.
							Pavel

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