Mark Eichin writes ("Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII"): > Interesting, I hadn't even realized we had one. Any reason not to make > /etc/init.d/console use > font=iso01.f16 > by default? Yes. If you do that then I can't read my console after bootup, because I'm not using the default 80x25 console size. (I have vga=4 in my lilo.conf.) Ian.