Re: Two questions about console utf8 support

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <E16EyFC-00033D-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> By the way, my current plan is that as soon as emacs, bash and readline
> all work satisfactorily under en_US.UTF-8, to pursuade Linus et al. that
> the Linux console should start in UTF-8 (as opposed to ISO 8859-1 at the
> moment), and that (just as a symbolic gesture) at least one of the
> kernel boot messages shall contain a few non-ASCII characters in UTF-8
> (probably some block graphics from CP435).
> 
> Proposals for interesting UTF-8 kernel boot messages welcome.
> 

Someone is planning to rewrite the console subsystem for Linux 2.5.
That's definitely the time.

       -hpa
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