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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> sysfs, and you were on the discussion (your idea won, basically....)
> And the way I see it, it got merged.
> Commit 042f10ec6533e53181284c96d22ae051e49ac707
>
> As I further see it, this CONFIG_VT_UNICODE patch defines the
> starting value for the default.
>
> E.g. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=y, you start with utf8, and can, at will, at
> runtime, change it. CONFIG_VT_UNICODE=n, you start with 8bit, and can,
> at will, at runtime, too, change it ;-)
>

Hmmm...

Personally I'd suggest making it the default unless overridden in
/etc/sysctl.conf. My second preference would be a command-line option,
not a compile-time default.

This is 2007, after all, and it seems Unicode should be the default,
anything else legacy...

-hpa
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