Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> writes:
> >
> > Interesting, I have:
> > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
> > and in /etc/console-tools/config
> > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16
> > With that setup, Dotan Cohen's line looks like solid black squares
> > separated by dashes.
>
> You mean this is happening on the Linux console, right?
Yes.
> Your LANG setting is fine, but the "lat0-sun16" console font doesn't
> contain any Hebrew characters, so that's why you're getting solid
> black squares (indicating "no character available") separated by
> dashes. You can load a Hebrew font on the current console:
>
> consolechars -f iso08.f16.psf.gz
>
> and Dotan's list should show up fine, but then accented latin
> characters won't be available.
Ahhhhhh so it does, but the little arrows which point to the messages in
each thread in the index view have lost their shaft.
> I think without special support, the Linux console handles only 256
> characters at once (or 512 if you're willing to give up bold text).
> You can use the "dynafont" package, which uses dynamic font loading
> tricks to allow displaying text that requires more code space than
> that. It comes with a font that includes about 7900 glyphs and does
> pretty well if you don't care about Asian language support.
Ahhhh, I see, so that where the "512 glyph" phrase comes from?
--
Chris.
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