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Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 19:44:26 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:16:02PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > > ... but, the vt is normally in unicode when the kernel oopses, without issues.
> > > Does newt/slang set it to a *different* mode?
> >
> > What I think is happening is the kernel is trying to output text
> > in the middle of a multi-byte unicode sequence, resulting in garbage.
>
> If that's the case, wouldn't it 'sometimes work' instead of 'always fail'?
I don't really understand enough about unicode to answer. It's all speculation
on my part really because I don't have any better explanation for why it's
happening.
Dave
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