[Bug 190746] Re: Some console fonts (i.e.Lat2-VGA8.psf.gz) have bad Unicode maps

[Paul Sladen]

They were likely generated using 'otf2bdf'.  I'd concur that because of
the simple nature of 'bdf2psf' the actual errors are likely have been
generated at the pre-BDF stage.  They could relate in incorrect
equivalency mappings.

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Title:
  Some console fonts (i.e.Lat2-VGA8.psf.gz) have bad Unicode maps

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: console-setup

  It seems that the file Lat2-VGA8.psf.gz has a partially incorrect
  Unicode map:

  a) The Unicodes for some box lines and capital letters are wrong; for example, a character number 80h, that has the following bitmap (8x8 matrix follows)
  ........
  XXXXXXX.
  .XX.....
  .XXXX...
  .XX.....
  XXXXXXX.
  ..XX....
  ...XX...
  has  associated unicodes 2500 (BOX DRAWING LIGHT HORIZONTAL) and 2501 (BOX DRAWING HEAVY HORIZONTAL) instead of 0118 (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH OGONEK). Consequently, all the mentioned characters are not displayed correctly. Still, the majority of the map is OK (i.e. the lowercase accented characters are mapped correctly). The easiest way to reproduce this is probably to:

          1) Set /etc/default/console-setup this way:
          CHARMAP="UTF-8"
          CODESET="Lat2"
          FONTFACE="VGA"
          FONTSIZE="8"

          2) Run setupcon in the console

          3) Run midnight commander in the console and have a look at
  the boxes.

  This also applies to some other fonts (I checked a handful of other
  Lat2* fonts).

  
  b) I wonder if this is a bug (probably technically it is not):  Actually the order of the characters in Lat2-VGA8.psf.gz (even those that are correctly mapped) is not the same as in the official ISO_8859-2 definition.

  For example, the letter number a lowercase "r" with an acute (unicode
  0155h) is number E0h in the ISO table, but  number C8h in the
  Lat2-VGA8 file.

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