Is there anyway to have something easily done about it upstream ? Would the license be an issue if there's any about it ? Where should i contact to try to see if they can include it upstream ? Thank you. Regards -HerbalNekoTea
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 1:51 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:36:13 -0400, HerbalNekoTea said: > > > Hi, i have kinda found a method a couple years ago to import the Japanese > > Shift-JIS encoding from Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/OpenSuse to any other > > distribution and i keep forgetting to maintain the sideloading method > when > > the kernel update broke it. > > > Essentially, the reply from 2018 from this bugzilla mailing list was > what i > > found to make it work. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290 > > > It would required to have a up to date fedora build and rip it from that > > location... Which's very inconveniant. Hence why i was hoping to have it > > supported by default by the kernel. > > Locales are very much a userspace thing, the kernel doesn't care or know > about > it. If you're using the line-mode virtual consoles rather than Gnome > terminal > or xterm or other GUI terminal program, you'll need an appropriate font, > but > again, that's more userspace than kernel. > > If you read the last comment that you're pointing at in that bugzilla, it > flat out tells you how to fix your issue *in userspace*. > > This is not a kernel problem. >
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