On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 06:12:03AM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > AFAIR Dennis Ritchie lamented the spread of the capitalized form UNIX, he > insisted it was never meant to be that way and that at AT&T/Bell Labs they > always wrote Unix. But, alas! all capital lettering was ubiquitous back > then, at least in several systems/terminals, and the custom stuck. IIRC > only this year the US Navy gave up the requirement that its communications > must always be trasmitted using all capitals.
Because of lack of Unicode, those terminals couldn't do it right. But that's no more: here's a kernel patch set which makes the tty line discipline handle the Great Runes correctly: https://github.com/kilobyte/linux/commits/runes "stty olcuc" to enable. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Laws we want back: Poland, Dz.U. 1921 nr.30 poz.177 (also Dz.U. ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ 1920 nr.11 poz.61): Art.2: An official, guilty of accepting a gift ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ or another material benefit, or a promise thereof, [in matters ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ relevant to duties], shall be punished by death by shooting. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
