Re: [patch] vt: deactive Shift In/Out in unicode mode

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/19/2010 09:20 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Monday 2010-04-19 16:31, Alan Cox wrote:
>>>
>>> I am proposing the patch below for inclusion.
>>> Also pullable via
>>> 	git://dev.medozas.de/linux siso
>>
>> It seems to do a lot of other things as well. Can you split out just the
>> relevant bit ?
> 
> It's really just the top commit. Perhaps I should rebase it to a
> v2.6.34-rcX tag so that shortlog does what one expects.
> 
> Alexander mentioned:
> 
> [quoting the gmane nntp posting which was stripped of To:s and Cc:s]
>>
>> Since KOI7 is not used by any glibc locale, your use case is now 
>> extinct. I think that, unless someone finds out a different use case, 
>> these SI and SO characters should be deactivated completely (and not 
>> just in unicode mode).
> 
> Alan, do you agree that the entire SI/SO can/should be removed?

VT line drawing characters are generally assumed to be accessible using
SI/SO (as they are by default.)

	-hpa
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