vt: expose system-wide UTF-8 default setting via sysfs
Create a variable, default_utf8, that defines the system-wide default UTF-8
setting. This variable can be altered via sysfs. If the variable is properly
set, this should mimimize breakage of UTF-8 encoded consoles when doing a
reset or echo -e '\033c' and of newly opened/allocated consoles.
This is based from patches by Jan Engelhardt and Paul LeoNerd Evans.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 4818327..0edbbc3 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@
static void set_palette(struct vc_data *vc);
static int printable; /* Is console ready for printing? */
+static int default_utf8;
+module_param(default_utf8, int, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
/*
* ignore_poke: don't unblank the screen when things are typed. This is
@@ -1517,7 +1519,7 @@
vc->vc_charset = 0;
vc->vc_need_wrap = 0;
vc->vc_report_mouse = 0;
- vc->vc_utf = 0;
+ vc->vc_utf = default_utf8;
vc->vc_utf_count = 0;
vc->vc_disp_ctrl = 0;