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Re: Bug#1123750: linux: regression: virtual consoles 2-12 unusable



Dixi quod…

>(Given this, I’m not sure console-setup needs to change here, but
>it’s not entirely unlikely that something may wish to use these
>fonts without the unimap, so IMHO the compilation process should
>make sure that the glyphs #33‥#126 should be their ASCII counter‐
>parts, and that either #32 or #0 should be the empty glyph.

Turns out they do, I inspected the generated unimap, and #32‥#126
do correspond to their ASCII equivalents.

>slightly argue in favour of #32 here, which Linux should then make
>its numbered fallback glyph for unimap-less fonts.)

This, then. (So, basically, the “ch = 0x20;” suggestion from Helge,
except only for unimap-less fonts.)

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
15:39⎜«mika:#grml» mira|AO: "mit XFree86® wär’ das nicht passiert" - muhaha
15:48⎜<thkoehler:#grml> also warum machen die xorg Jungs eigentlich alles
kaputt? :)    15:49⎜<novoid:#grml> thkoehler: weil sie als Kinder nie den
gebauten Turm selber umschmeissen durften?	-- ~/.Xmodmap wonders…


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