On November 16, 2017 12:13:31 AM GMT+03:00, Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:56:31PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: >> Quoting Adam Borowski ([email protected]): >> >> > 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. >> >> That's very droll, Adam. Thank you for that. >> >> I'm really curious, though: Is there a real 2017 use-case for >'output >> lower case as upper case', of did you code this bit of brilliance >just >> for the lulz? (I've learned the hard way that what looks like >something >> coded on a lark sometimes is serious.) > >I was merely mocking Linux implementing olcuc in 1991, when it was >already >grossly ridiculous and long since removed from all relevant standards. >I >guess Linus took a manpage and blindly implemented everything without >stopping to think if it makes any sense, when he coded the tty layer in >v0.01. > >So with this patch it at least has _some_ use, if you want to train >yourself >to read runes. Otherwise, it's probably time to make it a no-op (still >present in uapi headers to not break compilation of programs that >nominally >support it). > > >Meow! >-- >⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ 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
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