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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:26:21 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How can I use in console codepage different from ANSI and OEM?
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On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>First off, in a followup message, the patch author claims to have received
>a signed acknowledgement from RedHat -- hope this helps.

Actually, it doesn't.  I had already read that transaction (obviously?).
Someone claiming to have received something from Red Hat is not really a
legally binding transaction.

>Second, would it make sense to modify the patch to make a third value for
>codepage ("asis" or "none"), instead of making it a modifier?  From what I
>understood, there should be no difference between "codepage=oem:con-asis"
>and "codepage=ansi:con-asis", which, in my mind, calls for a separate
>value name...

That occurred to me after I sent the email.  I was kind of hoping the
Egor would come to this conclusion.

cgf

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