Re: Consolechars Question
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:30:00AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:41:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > Why consolechars -d? I thought that was already found not to be
> > satisfactory.
>
> No, consolechars -d always gives me the best font. Since the command
> loads the default font it should be loaded at bootup. Instead, as
So everything looks Ok in mutt if you do "consolechars -d"?
> described above, the font changes at least twice during bootup. When
> bootup is complete the ASCII characters 1-128 are ok but the ASCII
> characters 129-256 are a problem. Double frame symbols are used to
> indicate threading instead of single frame symbols and the capital N's
> with tilde appear in the lines. The result can be read but it is not
> easy to spot where a thread ends and a new subject starts.
> > How have you set up the locale setting - "dpkg-reconfigure locales"?
>
> Only en_US_UTF-8 is selected.
That isn't one of the options. Do you mean en_US.UTF-8?
> > You are running mutt in the virtual console, i.e. non gui, and you are
> > not ssh'ing from another machine?
>
> I am using command line entries on tty1 through tty6 and I usually start
> mutt on tty2.
Same here, and with console-terminus installed and the
Uni3-TerminusBold16 font I can see more foreign characters in mutt.
I am a bit stumped as to why it is not working for you.
Ummm what is the output of:
apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools}
Mine is:
kbd:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.14.1-4
Version table:
1.14.1-4 0
500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages
console-data:
Installed: 2:1.07-11
Candidate: 2:1.07-11
Version table:
*** 2:1.07-11 0
500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
console-setup:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.28
Version table:
1.28 0
500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages
console-tools:
Installed: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1
Candidate: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1
Version table:
*** 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 0
500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
AIUI, you use either console-tools ** OR ** kbd to set the font.
So if you have 'kbd' installed, I'd purge it and that way you know that
only settings in /etc/console-tools/config are being used.
--
Chris.
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