[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole: properly set terminal UTF-8 mode

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 16:58, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 15:35, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We cannot assume terminal is in UTF-8 (actually, unless
>>> setup by initrd it likely is not). Properly set requested
>>> mode. This avoids errors similar to
>>
>> Why isn't it utf8 by default?
>>
>> That should have been changed long ago:
>>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/7/37
>>
>
> Actually it was reset to non-UTF8 by systemd-vconsole-setup :p
>
> It is rather interesting. I was testing unrelated patch for dracut
> using dracut tip. It turned out, dracut now installs
> systemd-vconsole-setup when available. Unfortunately it also also
> changed parsing of configuration files so no locale config was
> installed. Which caused vconsole-setup assume we are in non-UNICODE
> mode and disable it.
>
> I still believe we should not make any assumption about console state
> at the time of systemd startup and ensure it is configured as
> requested.

I see, then we should fix the vconsole setup if stuff goes wrong here.
We can safely assume that the kernel we rely on is utf8 by default.

Kay