Re: JFS default behavior

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> Many terminals will not ever display UTF-8.  Think: all the serial terminals.
> 
> This is why I think "stty utf8" or something along those lines would
> be useful.  The terminal itself doesn't have to talk UTF-8; however,
> the applications talking with /dev/tty would always see UTF-8.
> 
> That seems to solve most of the practical user interface problems of
> the command line, in one single clean place.

Doesn't "screen" already do this? I don't think you want to have the
locale handling in the kernel, along with translation of multi-key
characters (and from things like CJK terminals? I don't know what format
they send).  Sounds like you should use a user-mode thing that knows about
locales...

		Linus
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