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Re: debian-installer - some oddities



On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:49:04PM -0600, elijah wright wrote:
> dumb terminals, at least in the US, are ascii-only.  no clue whether
> anyone ever manufactured terminals that did non-roman-alphabetic or
> non-ascii characters.  i would think "maybe", but i don't know for sure.

At least not this sort of terminal which uses EBCDIC as nativ charset
and the kernel needs to convert that and only knows a subset of
US-ASCII.

Bastian

-- 
Not one hundred percent efficient, of course ... but nothing ever is.
		-- Kirk, "Metamorphosis", stardate 3219.8

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