Bug#844579: console-setup: CyrAsia font missing Kazakh letter
Although it seems like these letters are also referenced in
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/console-setup.git/tree/Fonts/fontcodesets
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
<baurthefirst@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Baurzhan Muftakhidinov <baurthefirst@gmail.com> (2016-11-17):
>>> Package: console-setup
>>>
>>> Version: 1.153
>>>
>>> Dear maintainers,
>>>
>>> Recently I loaded CyrAsia font in console, and have noticed
>>> that it misses one Kazakh letter:
>>>
>>> Ұ U+04B0 Cyrillic Capital Letter Straight U with Stroke
>>> ұ U+04B1 Cyrillic Small Letter Straight U with Stroke
>>>
>>> I checked these codes in
>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/console-setup.git/tree/Fonts/fontsets/CyrAsia.256
>>>
>>> Could you please add these to CyrAsia font definition?
>>
>> I'm not sure what's involved to add support for those. Maybe it's
>> sufficient to add two lines with the codepoint to the file you
>> mentioned?
>>
>> Maybe you could try patching console-setup locally and reporting back
>> whether that fixed the bug?
>>
>>
>> KiBi.
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recompiled the package and extracted CyrAsia-Fixed16.psf.gz font.
> I can confirm that adding these two lines is enough for missing letter
> to appear in font.
>
> While we are at it, I wonder where these glyphs are taken from?
> Because in build log I see that № symbol is missing from the resulting font.
> In log file it says
>
> WARNING: U+2116: no glyph defined
>
> Also I see that currency symbols of some countries are added,
> so I would like to add Kazakh tenge as well, its code is
>
> ₸ - Unicode Character 'TENGE SIGN' (U+20B8)
>
> Thanks,
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