Re: Consolechars Question
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:02:42AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font
> > > and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters. The final
> > > font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate
> > > threading of messages are weird.
> >
> > OK, install console-terminus then edit /etc/console-tools/config
> >
> > ------ /etc/console-tools/config -----------
> > # Turn on numlock by default
> > #LEDS=+num
> > APP_CHARSET_MAP=utf8
> > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=utf8
> > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=utf8
> > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=utf8
> > APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=utf8
> > SCREEN_FONT=Uni3-TerminusBold16
> > ------ /etc/console-tools/config -----------
> >
> > The lines "# Turn on numlock by default" and "#LEDS=+num" should already
> > be there at the end of the file.
> >
> > Do the threading symbols now show correctly?
>
> No, they have become more complex - i.e. the space between the start of
> a line and the threading symbol is now filled with capital n's with
> tilde over them. Previously there was just one N with tilde over it at
> the start of a line.
>
> Initially there was no change after editing /etc/console-tools/config as
> indicated above though echo $LANG responded en.US.UTF-8. I rebooted
> again seeing the switch to wiry fonts part way through the bootup. When
> the bootup was complete the console font looked like what I expect from
> en.US.UTF-8 but when I ran mutt the threading symbols were double line
> things and the space was filled with the N's with tilde over them.
> I ran consolechars -d and the threading switched to single line symbols
> and no N's with tilde.
Why consolechars -d? I thought that was already found not to be
satisfactory.
How have you set up the locale setting - "dpkg-reconfigure locales"?
You are running mutt in the virtual console, i.e. non gui, and you are
not ssh'ing from another machine?
--
Chris.
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