Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:06:26 +0100 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add CONFIG_VT_UNICODE |
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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...
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