console.c

Konstantin Kivi (konst@sirena.rinet.ru)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:38:07 +0400 (MSD)


Hello All !

I have no idea, who is
responsible for console.c in kernel/drivers/char/
so I will write to this list.

The problem is with Cyrillic capital letter Y
(don't know how to write it in English ;-)
in cp866 code page which is very popular in non-UNIX
world in RUSSIA (DOS). In this code page this
letter have code 128+27=155. If you search for
'128' (128 + 27) in console.c, you will find that it
start a special processing (Esquare). This code appeared
in the kernels later then 2.0.0.

What is the right way to process
this letter correctly? I cannot figure out how to do
it without commenting this code out (looks like
it is not necessary in most cases as it is redundant
and the same functionality can be achieved by
sending ESC followed by '[' ).

If you think that this code should be retained,
it must be made configurable at run time or
via lilo options or even by means of rdev.
Many end-users don't know what does it mean
to recompile the kernel, especially if
they have to make changes in the source code.
I don't want to do it either on all 20
machines at work, because I like
binary image that goes with Debian.

My keymap, font and rc.font
are attached. Keyboard is switched by Right Alt.
the letter is on English 'S'. Press it
and you will see little Y.
% %
% %
%%%%% %
% % %
% % %
%%%%% %

Shift S will not work
In fact it is only a display problem
echo -e '\233\233\233' doesn't show what I want.

Sincerely yours, Konstantin Kivi kkivi@chat.ru

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