Re: [PATCH 0/3] use unicode for vt mouse paste

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On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Adam Borowski wrote:

> Hi!
> Based on Nicolas' nice work (in tty-next), let's avoid corrupting characters
> that have been copy+pasted via mouse selection.  The uniscr array holds
> their original identity even if they got mangled by glyph conversion.
> The glyph conversion lossily turns similar-looking characters into a
> representation, and everyone else into a replacement character.
> 
> There's no proper handling for CJK (yet?) but anything of wcwidth()==1 will
> work fine.
> 
> The whole thing doesn't get enabled until something reads from /dev/vcsu for
> that console, but let's test this code first before enabling it widely.

Glad to see this. For the whole set you may add:

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>


> Diffstat:
>  drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  drivers/tty/vt/vt.c        | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/linux/selection.h  |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> -- 
> // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately
> // cease using counterfeit alphabets.  Instead, contact the nearest temple
> // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all
> // your writing needs, for Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory prices.
> 
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