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Re: kernel tty patches

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Subject: Re: kernel tty patches
From: Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:55:12 +0000 (GMT)
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote:

> >> Is this in kernel 2.4 now?
> 
> > No. There doesn't appear to be consensus that the tty built-in line
> > editor must support multibyte encodings.
> 
> My opinion is slightly different: it must, but this is a very
> low-priority item. It will, eventually, I think.

Even if this entails having a wcwidth() table in-kernel?

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Robert Brady
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