On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:56:31PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > > > 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 Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
