Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

On 5/11/07, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Even with fbdev... you are limited to 512 characters iirc. So.. who
> has authority to say which subset of utf-8 is ok?

This is a bug in fbdev and currently under discussion as there is no sane
reason to enforce the 512 symbol limit in the fbdev case (especially on a
large modern system)

> (Plus there is still lot of vga consoles out there -- all fedora users
> afaict?)

Fedora uses X.

I run FC5 and even _without_ X (on the tty1 console, for example), UTF-8
source files turn out just _fine_ indeed. And I checked vim, emacs and
*even* nano.
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