Broken commit d2e64d29c44dee6d455f7705dd1cf1af8674ad9a
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Wed Nov 2 00:25:09 CET 2022
Hi Pali,
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 17:08, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 09 October 2022 17:19:50 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Your commit d2e64d29c44dee6d455f7705dd1cf1af8674ad9a ("cli_readline:
> > Only insert printable chars") broke support for pound sign (£) and euro
> > sign (€) keys on Nokia N900 keypad.
> >
> > When I press either of those two keys, nothing is displayed on the N900
> > screen.
> >
> > On the other hand key for dollar sign ($) is working fine.
> >
> > After reverting that commit those two keys are working again. So I can
> > type "echo 40 €" and U-Boot console will print "40 €" on the screen.
> >
> > Commit message of that commit says to insert only printable characters
> > but instead it started dropping some printable characters.
> >
> > It would be a wise idea to not censor usage of non-dollar currency
> > symbols in U-Boot :-) Hehe I know that issue is probably with non-7-bit
> > characters, but funny things is that on N900 keypad are only two
> > non-ASCII characters: £ and €.
> >
> > Could you please look at it, what can be done with it?
>
> Hello after month! Any input on this? What about reverting that commit?
That seems OK to me. You can send a patch, then if Steve has other
ideas he can respond. But reverting something that introduces a
regression is good practice.
Regards,
Simon
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