Re: Keymaps in virtual consoles.

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

Mats Erik Andersson:
> I stumbled on an interesting phenomenon by a simple
> 
>   $ date
> 
> In Swedish, Monday needs "aring", i.e., "0xe5" in Latin1,
> and "0xc3 0xa5" with UTF-8, while Saturday and Sunday
> need "odiareses", i.e., "0xf6" and "0xc3 0xb6", respecively.
> 
> Now, in a console with ISO-8859-15, neither vowel is rendered,
> while with UTF-8, they are rendered, but incorrectly. In fact,
> all of "aring", "Aring", "adiareses", "Adiareses", "odiareses",
> and "Odiareses" are rendered identically as a capital A with
> an acute accent on top, which makes no sense in Swedish.
> 
> These observations hold on Wheeze, so some fonts are clearly
> broken there.

This works fine on my Wheezy system. This is what I see on console:

$ echo -e \\xc3\\xa5
å

Are you loading special fonts or something?

-- 
Robert Millan