Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: rotation.

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:35:58 +0000 (UTC)


In article <1042153388.28469.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
>Note btw that the support ends rather abruptly on the console input side.
>There is no support for 3 or 4 byte utf8 input sequences and the delete
>key code in the kernel has no understanding of or support for UTF8
>deletion behaviour

UTF8 delete behaviour should be pretty trivial to add. It's liketly to
be more involved than simply adding a

/* multi-char UTF8 thing? Continue until we hit the first one */
if (tty->utf8 && (c & 0x80) && !(c & 0x40))
continue;

to the loop in n_tty.c: eraser(), but it might not be _much_ more than
that.

Linus
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