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diff --git a/etc/gettytab b/etc/gettytab
index c0ac99a..5e11851 100644
--- a/etc/gettytab
+++ b/etc/gettytab
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@
# cb, ce and ck are desirable on most crt's. The non-crt entries need to
# be changed to turn them off (cb@:ce@:ck@:).
#
+# lc should always be on; it's a remainder of some stone age when there
+# have been terminals around not being able of handling lower-case
+# characters. Those terminals aren't supported any longer, but getty is
+# `smart' about them by default.
+#
# Parity defaults to even. There ought to be more alternative entries with
# no parity. The Pc entry already has no parity.. The different parities
# are:
@@ -25,7 +30,7 @@
# characters on non-terminals (like pccons) that don't
# support parity. It would probably better for getty not to
# try to fake parity. It could just use cbreak mode so as
-# as not to force cs8 and let the hardware handle the parity.
+# not to force cs8 and let the hardware handle the parity.
# login has to be rely on the hardware anyway.
# 2. set PASS8, giving cs8 -parenb -istrip -inpck.
# np:ep: same as np except inpck.
@@ -33,7 +38,7 @@
# np:ap: same as np except istrip.
#
default:\
- :cb:ce:ck:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:
+ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:
#
# Fixed speed entries
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