From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>,
Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@handhelds.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:33:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070509203335.GA4290@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178721996.2824.199.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-11 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-03 21:33 [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver Anton Vorontsov
2007-05-07 14:04 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 14:12 ` Anton Vorontsov
2007-05-07 15:10 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-07 19:49 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 19:51 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-07 20:38 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 21:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 5:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-05-07 20:04 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-08 17:45 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-05-08 17:52 ` Stephen Clark
2007-05-08 17:52 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-09 14:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-05-09 14:46 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-09 20:33 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-05-11 12:43 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-11 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-12 21:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-05-12 23:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-13 4:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-13 16:40 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-11 13:21 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 13:45 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-12 16:35 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-05-13 5:39 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-13 6:03 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-05-13 6:21 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-07 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-07 21:55 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-05-07 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 12:18 ` Stephen Clark
2007-05-12 17:03 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-05-12 19:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-12 19:31 ` Russell King
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