On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:16:02PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Dave Jones (davej@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