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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:05:11 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:15:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > OK I could reproduce the case without ever involving either a shell or
> > readline or anything. Using "cat" as the init program exhibited the
> > anomaly, though it was not much easy to analyze. Then I switched to
> > "init=od -An -tx1 -".
> 
> Did you put the console into utf-8 mode before the cat ?

I had not *explictly* disabled it, since as the doc suggests :

        vt.default_utf8=
                        [VT]
                        Format=<0|1>
                        Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
                        Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
                        newly opened terminals.

And I know that I can fix the behaviour by explicitly setting it to zero.
Also, the fact that "od" shows me multi-byte characters on the input
indicates to me that everything is set to UTF-8. So unless I'm missing
something, my console is set by default to UTF-8 (I test this on 2.6.25).

Regards,
Willy