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Subject: bug#30505: Starting console/terminal Unicode support
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:41:05 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hello!

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

[...]

>> default_utf8 is a default, and it will be read only when defaulting, so
>> in this case it will be read when Linux is constructing a tty.
>>
>> %base-services contain both console-font-service and mingetty-service wh=
ich
>> both access the ttys.  Linux VTs are created on demand.
>>
>> Once the VTs are created, us setting default_utf8 is too late.
>>
>> We should set default_utf8 before anyone touches tty[123456].
>>
>> Where will that be?
>>
>> Should we just set it in boot-system ? That's probably a nice way -
>> also since I think this setting is quite Linux-specific.
>
> Alternately we could introduce a =E2=80=98virtual-terminal=E2=80=99 servi=
ce that every
> =E2=80=98term-*=E2=80=99 service would depend on.  That =E2=80=98virtual-=
terminal=E2=80=99 service would
> simply write =E2=80=9C1=E2=80=9D to /sys/=E2=80=A6/default_utf8.

Done in bb3062ad6290223ea24144ca8aa1f4cddac8f9be.

Thanks!

Ludo=E2=80=99.