From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261693AbUBVQ2y (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:28:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261690AbUBVQ2y (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:28:54 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:2178 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261693AbUBVQ2x (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:28:53 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:28:48 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alex Belits , =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 practically vs. theoretically in the VFS API Message-ID: <20040222162848.GC25664@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040217071448.GA8846@schmorp.de> <20040217161111.GE8231@schmorp.de> <20040217164651.GB23499@mail.shareable.org> <20040217205707.GF24311@mail.shareable.org> <20040217214733.GJ24311@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I guess my question is when do we know the information is going to > a terminal so we should translate it? When a program is writing to a terminal device, then we know it's going to a terminal _or_ to a program which is pretending to be one (pseudo-terminal). Either way, the behaviour should be the same The "screen" program can be used to do translation, although it's a rather cumbersome way to go about it, and it has other effects which are annoying (at least one key is always designated for "screen" commands). -- Jamie