On November 16, 2017 12:13:31 AM GMT+03:00, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 12:56:31PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
>> Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte@???):
>>
>> > Because of lack of Unicode, those terminals couldn't do it right.
>But
>> > that's no more: here's a kernel patch set which makes the tty line
>> > discipline handle the Great Runes correctly:
>> > https://github.com/kilobyte/linux/commits/runes
>> >
>> > "stty olcuc" to enable.
>>
>> That's very droll, Adam. Thank you for that.
>>
>> I'm really curious, though: Is there a real 2017 use-case for
>'output
>> lower case as upper case', of did you code this bit of brilliance
>just
>> for the lulz? (I've learned the hard way that what looks like
>something
>> coded on a lark sometimes is serious.)
>
>I was merely mocking Linux implementing olcuc in 1991, when it was
>already
>grossly ridiculous and long since removed from all relevant standards.
>I
>guess Linus took a manpage and blindly implemented everything without
>stopping to think if it makes any sense, when he coded the tty layer in
>v0.01.
>
>So with this patch it at least has _some_ use, if you want to train
>yourself
>to read runes. Otherwise, it's probably time to make it a no-op (still
>present in uapi headers to not break compilation of programs that
>nominally
>support it).
>
>
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`stty olcuc` works on my Android phone's shell. It gave me a chuckle.

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