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[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:16:02PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
 > Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said: 
 > >  > ... 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.
 > 
 > If that's the case, wouldn't it 'sometimes work' instead of 'always fail'?

I don't really understand enough about unicode to answer. It's all speculation
on my part really because I don't have any better explanation for why it's
happening.

	Dave

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