Re: [PATCH 17/16] Do not reset UTF8 on terminal reset

Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-02T09:30:54Z

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:31 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Apr 2 2007 14:49, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 20:13 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >> Allow for the palette to be exposed and changed via sysfs. A call to
> >> /usr/bin/reset will slurp the new definitions in for the current
> >> console.
> >
> >I like this. The escape sequences to change the palette does not stay
> >permanently.
>
> As much as you like it, there is a slight problem with it. Linux will
> currently throw virtual consoles out of UTF8 mode when reset is called.
>
> Also see:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/289
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/17/297
>
> These posts argue about terminfo being the culprit. But how can terminfo
> be at fault, when `echo -en "\ec"` triggers it too?
>
> Since I am in a patch mood, here's my stance/patch, which is compile and
> run tested and behaves as expected (both with `echo` and `reset`).

Tested and works here too.

Tony