Re: [2.6 patch] UTF-8 fixes in comments

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hello,

Willy Tarreau, le Wed 30 Apr 2008 21:49:20 +0200, a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:08:51AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > 3) if I enter Alt-196, I get a "Ä". Flushing the buffer shows that od
> > > got two bytes: c3 84.
> > 
> > Confirmed.
> > 
> > Try init=/bin/stty -a, that will show
> > 
> > -iutf8
> > 
> > So there is little wonder that canonical mode does not work as expected.
> > 
> > Try init=/bin/sh, from that shell run stty iutf8. Then things will work
> > fine.  The fix is thus just to make the VT's tty initial iutf8 setup
> > follow vt.default_utf8.
> 
> Will try that on a more recent install. Mine's stty does not support
> this option. Your analysis makes quite a lot of sense, and such a fix
> would wipe part of my annoyances/anger with this recent change.

Can you give the patch below a try?
Dynamic per-VT utf-8 switch should also work, provided that you reopen
the VT (i.e. log out).

Samuel



Set IUTF8 as appropriate on VT tty open.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

--- linux/drivers/char/vt.c.orig	2008-05-04 00:37:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/drivers/char/vt.c	2008-05-04 00:47:39.000000000 +0100
@@ -2723,6 +2723,10 @@ static int con_open(struct tty_struct *t
 				tty->winsize.ws_row = vc_cons[currcons].d->vc_rows;
 				tty->winsize.ws_col = vc_cons[currcons].d->vc_cols;
 			}
+			if (vc->vc_utf)
+				tty->termios->c_iflag |= IUTF8;
+			else
+				tty->termios->c_iflag &= ~IUTF8;
 			release_console_sem();
 			vcs_make_sysfs(tty);
 			return ret;
@@ -2899,6 +2903,8 @@ int __init vty_init(void)
 	console_driver->minor_start = 1;
 	console_driver->type = TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_CONSOLE;
 	console_driver->init_termios = tty_std_termios;
+	if (default_utf8)
+		console_driver->init_termios.c_iflag |= IUTF8;
 	console_driver->flags = TTY_DRIVER_REAL_RAW | TTY_DRIVER_RESET_TERMIOS;
 	tty_set_operations(console_driver, &con_ops);
 	if (tty_register_driver(console_driver))