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From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:29:19 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCC68BF.6090300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1004191555290.17067@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode
>
> WP describes these control codes as: "The original meaning of those
> characters was to switch to a different character set and back.  This
> was used, for instance, in the Russian character set known as KOI7,
> where SO starts printing Russian letters, and SI starts printing Latin
> letters again."

Since KOI7 is not used by any glibc locale, your use case is now 
extinct. I think that, unless someone finds out a different use case, 
these SI and SO characters should be deactivated completely (and not 
just in unicode mode).

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-19 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-19 13:57 [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-19 14:29 ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2010-04-20 19:56   ` James Cloos
2010-04-19 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-19 16:20   ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-20 23:49     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-04-22  8:39       ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-04-22 13:26         ` H. Peter Anvin

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