[Bug 133072] Re: tty console doen't show characters with accent

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Current situation in Natty:

1) Booting normally in X and switching to vt1:
Font and charmap is not applied.

2) Booting in X *without splash* and switching to vt1:
Font is applied (e.g. Terminus), but not charmap, so I still can't see e.g. Greek.

3) Booting in recovery mode (vmlinuz single):
Everything works fine.


I tried troubleshooting it a bit, by putting a wrapper script around /bin/setfont. I saw that "setfont -C /dev/ttyX /etc/console-setup/Uni2-Terminus16.psf" is actually called for tty[1-6] on boot, and also *twice* for each tty, but something prevents them from actually taking effect.

Of course running that command after boot correctly sets the
font/charmap.

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Title:
  tty console doen't show characters with accent

Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Kubuntu 7.10 tribe 4, tty console (out of X) cannot display characters with accent, also can't display 'ñ' and '€'.
  Locale value:

  LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en
  LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=

  Thanks for your atention.

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