Recai Oktas wrote: > The fix is simple, just do a 's/iso01.f16/lat0-sun16/' in above line of > termwrap (and perhaps repeat this substitute on all iso01.f16 fonts). I > think this might be the urgent fix for an upcoming 'tc1'. But for > future releases, I would like to learn the comments on some alternatives > (I'll consider only the iso encodings): I note that Kenshi made the change to iso01.f16 in base-config r1030 with the commit message: Fix broken display with kernel 2.6 in C or ISO-8859-1 encoding. I think i386 is OK, but other arch needs to test I thought the issue this change was supposed to fix was broken line drawing characters with the 2.6 kernel. So it's weird if it broke 2.4, do we need to do different things for 2.4 and 2.6? > (2) For the debconf newt, treat this "dialog boxes without frames" > appearance as a feature, and use the iso* fonts in everywhere. This > somewhat ensures a common appearance for all languages and do not have > any national screen problem. Consider this a feature if you like, but it has ramificatons beyond borders of dialog boxes. Take a look at tasksel for instance. Or mutt. -- see shy jo
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