Re: [PATCH] vt: Do not clear UTF when resetting console

[H. Peter Anvin]

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Resetting the console, either by ANSI escape sequences or by the reset utility,
> will drop the console back to legacy (non-UTF-8) mode. Fix this by leaving the
> field vc_data.vc_utf untouched in reset_terminal(). In addition, a global
> variable (default_utf8) which defines system-wide UTF-8 setting is created.
> This variable can be adjusted via sysfs.

If you're going to introduce a system-wide default, instead of issuing 
the appropriate escape code, then I would argue it should still be 
forced (to the default) when issuing a console reset.

	-hpa
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