Console is utf-8 by default
authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:17:54 +0000 (16:17 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 3 Jan 2008 20:06:40 +0000 (12:06 -0800)
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode.  Fix the documentation on
the default value, so that we can explain behaviour that otherwise
causes bug-reports like this:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319

Also add the needed "vt." prefix, so that the boot-time config options
to switch back to the legacy 8-bit mode is actually documented
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

index 33121d6c827c6e5fcc85d72b1f5ee5f166b743a2..e5b447a0acdad3444e9780fb253a032cce3a0535 100644 (file)
@@ -527,29 +527,30 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                        Format: <area>[,<node>]
                        See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
 
-       default_blu=    [VT]
+       vt.default_blu= [VT]
                        Format: <blue0>,<blue1>,<blue2>,...,<blue15>
                        Change the default blue palette of the console.
                        This is a 16-member array composed of values
                        ranging from 0-255.
 
-       default_grn=    [VT]
+       vt.default_grn= [VT]
                        Format: <green0>,<green1>,<green2>,...,<green15>
                        Change the default green palette of the console.
                        This is a 16-member array composed of values
                        ranging from 0-255.
 
-       default_red=    [VT]
+       vt.default_red= [VT]
                        Format: <red0>,<red1>,<red2>,...,<red15>
                        Change the default red palette of the console.
                        This is a 16-member array composed of values
                        ranging from 0-255.
 
-       default_utf8=   [VT]
+       vt.default_utf8=
+                       [VT]
                        Format=<0|1>
                        Set system-wide default UTF-8 mode for all tty's.
-                       Default is 0 and by setting to 1, it enables UTF-8
-                       mode for all newly opened or allocated terminals.
+                       Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
+                       newly opened terminals.
 
        dhash_entries=  [KNL]
                        Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache.