Re: DeviceKit is marked complete, what about utf8

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

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/halstorageaccess.cpp?revision=918779&view=markup

Maybe GNOME should just do the same?

        Kevin Kofler