Re^2: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII

[david@eos.lugs.ch (David Frey)]

Hi Ian,

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

This is fixable, something like this should work:

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/kbd: load appropriate console font and keytable.

PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin

set `stty size`
case "$2x$1" in
  80x25| 80x30|132x30) 
                 setfont /etc/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-16.psf 2>/dev/null ;;
  80x28|132x25)  
                 setfont /etc/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-14.psf 2>/dev/null ;;
  80x43)         
                 setfont /etc/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-10.psf 2>/dev/null ;;
  80x50| 80x60|132x43|132x60|*)
                 setfont /etc/kbd/consolefonts/lat1-08.psf 2>/dev/null ;;
esac

echo -ne '\033[9;15]\033[1;6]'		# blank 15, ulcolor cyan
setvesablank on # enable VESA blanking
  
# Set console defaults, individually for the other virtual consoles.
# Switch to null-font mapping
for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ; do
  echo -ne '\033[1;6]' > /dev/tty$t
done

# End of console

David
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