From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:06:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E00962.7080903@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709061404120.25942@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> sysfs, and you were on the discussion (your idea won, basically....)
> And the way I see it, it got merged.
> Commit 042f10ec6533e53181284c96d22ae051e49ac707
>
> As I further see it, this CONFIG_VT_UNICODE patch defines the
> starting value for the default.
>
> E.g. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=y, you start with utf8, and can, at will, at
> runtime, change it. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=n, you start with 8bit, and can,
> at will, at runtime, too, change it ;-)
>
Hmmm...
Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in
/etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option,
not a compile-time default.
This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default,
anything else legacy...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-06 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 20:18 [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE Bill Nottingham
2007-08-31 20:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-31 20:28 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-08-31 20:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-01 21:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-06 12:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-06 14:06 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-09-07 0:26 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-09-07 11:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-07 11:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-13 15:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
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