text-mode console font

[Lucian Adrian Grijincu]

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Alexey Ten (Lynn)
<alexeyten+deb at gmail.com> wrote:
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

I ran it and it said:
Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your system
boots. If you want to update it now, run 'setupcon' from a virtual console.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-19-generic


For each font selected in 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' I ran
'setupcon' in a virtual terminal. All fonts seem to have appropiate
support for these diacritics.

I rebooted hoping to see the changes being applied after reboot (as
the output of 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' suggested). I was
greeted by the same font that had missing characters (and displayed
them as filled squares). This font has a
different aspect than the ones that were set up by 'setupcon'.


There seem to be two problems:
a) there is a font with insufficient support for these characters
b) the changes made by 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' are not used
by default when opening a virtual console.


This on an up-to-date Maverick. You can test this on your
systems by entring the "€" character in a virtual console (that's
AltGr+E on my keyboard layout, YMMV).

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