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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30505-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30505: Starting console/terminal Unicode support
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:41:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvthvcxq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7vu6ay7.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:25:36 +0100")

Hello!

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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 which
>> 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 ‘virtual-terminal’ service that every
> ‘term-*’ service would depend on.  That ‘virtual-terminal’ service would
> simply write “1” to /sys/…/default_utf8.

Done in bb3062ad6290223ea24144ca8aa1f4cddac8f9be.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-18  0:01 bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-18 10:48 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 15:54   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-19 17:08     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-19 20:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-19 22:35         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-21 22:21           ` bug#30505: Starting console/terminal Unicode support Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-21 23:01             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-23 21:41               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-25 12:31                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-25 12:57                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-26 17:09                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-26 22:23                       ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-27  9:25                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-15 10:41                           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-02-19 21:53       ` bug#30505: marionette/virtio-console issues lead to test failures Ludovic Courtès

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