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New Patches Aim To Improve Unicode Support For The Linux VT Console


While there are efforts underway to effectively kill the Linux virtual terminal 'VT' console by punting the functionality off to user-space, it's not dead yet and a new patch series out on Wednesday aims to enhance the modern Unicode handling by the Linux VT.

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