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

To: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: debian-devel@pixar.com (Debian Developer Mailing List)
Subject: Re: man uses ISO-Latin-1, but the default console font is ASCII
From: Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>
Date: 11 Apr 1996 17:51:53 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] xe1pw9ea0p2.fsf@maneki-neko.cygnus.com>
In-reply-to: Ian Jackson's message of Thu, 11 Apr 96 13:13 BST
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> 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.)

Good answer :-) It's easy enough to configure in any case.

(It turns out that my ET4000 card at home has a limited base font, but
some combination of loading other fonts ending with loading
default-8x16 ended up giving me a console font with european accents,
which is all I wanted anyway :-)

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