Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII
>>>>> Mark Eichin writes:
> 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: the fonts have all fixed numbers of scan lines, so if a user
chooses a display resolution at boot time which changes the font size
it causes havoc on the screen. There are a number of open bugs WRT
this behaviour of setfont.
Dominik
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