Re: [i8n] Latin 2 fonts need modification in rootdisk.sh
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:56:31AM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> So why isn't "consolechars --font FONT --acm iso02", where FONT is a
> PSF font that includes a _correct_ SFM, a workable solution?
Because the ACM selection is VC-specific.
To demonstrate: after doing what you suggested, the user switches to
another virtual console. The font won't display correctly anymore
because the kernel is still using the default (ISO 8859-1) ACM for
that virtual console. (The standard workaround is to put "printf
'\033(K'" (which selects the user-defined ACM) in /etc/profile.
However, if the user runs "reset", things are wrong again.)
> By the way, if the current hack works, I recommend not changing it in
> potato. I can live without UTF-8 in the installation system. But I
> would be opposed to a font with an incorrect SFM going into
> console-data; iso*g.psf should be packaged as part of boot-floppies
> and come with a prominent health warning.
I think this "incorrect SFM" is very useful, so I don't see why it
shouldn't be provided as a part of console-tools.
> And probably we should do something different in woody.
Like what? A less-limited kernel console driver?
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