Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII
>>>>> Richard Kettlewell writes:
> Seconded. ASCII is the lowest common denominator, and there are
> probably still terminals out there somewhere incapable of doing any
> better.
ISO 8859-1 is per se the standard for Linux, but i think the correct
way of doing man pages is that we should define a proper NLS
environment! If that is not done then en_US.88591 should be
assumed...
The problems with the kbd-utils will be addressed in the next release,
i am currently working on it ... Some things on the to-do list are:
* use m4 to generate identical keytables for console and X11.
* have setfont check the font resolution to avoid clobering of the screen.
* have setfont use the X11 fonts (that would be really great).
* add NLS support to the utilites.
* provide multi-lingual manuals.
* rename showfont (conflicts with X11).
* replace resizecons with SVGAtextmode.
* merge setterm, open and dynamic-vc packages with kbd.
* add support for Amiga, Atari and SUN keyboards.
Cheers,
Dominik
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