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[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:09:19PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
 > >  > > Gibberish is still printed while Anaconda is loading.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Yeah, this is the "the kernel oopsed, the output gets mangled with the
 > >  > way that newt sets up the terminal"
 > > 
 > > This has been bugging me for a while.  Anyone know if there's a byte
 > > sequence for 'end of unicode , reset terminal' that we could
 > > print before the kernel starts dumping output?
 > 
 > ... 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.

	Dave

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