Richard Hughes wrote:
The kernel patch was dropped as it's different from upstream.
Somebody
has to set the utf8 mode, and the kernel has decided that it should be
userspace policy.
You should probably email the upstream hal list and ask why it's not
upstream there.
Maybe it's best to leave this to the desktop? KDE already handles this, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470592#c7
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/4.2/kdelibs/solid/solid/backends/hal/h...
Maybe GNOME should just do the same?
Kevin Kofler