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.

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