[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole-setup: enable utf-8 mode explicitly

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 11.06.12 00:36, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> > Hmm, what setup exactly would be fixed by this?
> 
> In my case I can reprodce the problem by blacklisting my graphics
> driver (i915). In this case my console at boot is not in utf-8 mode,
> even though my locale is en_US.UTF-8.
> 
> Blacklisting i915 is not something most people would do, but I have
> been told that in case of the proprietary nvidia module one would end
> up in the same situation.

Hmm, I don't understand this.
> 
> > Utf8 mode is always enabled by default in the kernel. so we should be
> > fine by only disabling if we want to support legacy setups.
> 
> Even if that had been the case, I think it would make sense to allow
> systemd-vconsole-setup to be called manually (alternatively the
> service restarted) and for the right thing to in case you have changed
> your locale settings.

I do agree with this sentiment, hence I have applied this patch.

Lennart

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