[I am sending CC to debian-...@lists.debian.org.] On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:13:34PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > When I install console-setup on GNU/kFreeBSD, extended lat15 characters are > replaced by weird fonts. For example, attached screenshot displays the output > of "ls --version" command with Catalan locale. It should read: > > [...] > GPLv3+: llicència GNU GPL ver. 3 o posterior > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > Aquest és programari lliure: podeu modificar??lo i redistribuir??lo si voleu. > No hi ha CAP GARANTIA, en la mesura que ho permeta la llei. > > (don't worry about the copyright sign, this is a problem with original fonts > too) > > My /etc/default/console-setup has CHARMAP=UTF-8 and CODESET=Lat15. Before > installing console-setup, UTF-8 characters could be sent to terminals, and > the subset of Unicode that can be rendered using CP437 worked fine.
Unfortunately kFreeBSD kernels seem to be unfriendly to localizations. I suppose this is due to the UTF-8 patch. I suppose it is possible to fix this without changes in the kernel with some undocumented command, but unfortunately last time I checked I was unable to find any useful documentation. So in order to fix this important bug I need help. I don't know how one can use on kFreeBSD fonts that are not encoded in CP437. On normal FreeBSD one can use the following commands: vidcontrol -f FONT_FILE vidcontrol -l FONT_ENCODING_FILE I am almost certain that in order to do this with current kernels one has to disable somehow the UTF mode on the console and work in 8-bit encoding. In case what I am asking is impossible (or nobody knows how to do it) there are two alternatives. 1. I can disable font loading in console-setup on kFreeBSD. This is bad because CP437 covers only few languages. 2. kFreeBSD can use UTF-8 kernel in the installer (because the installer relies on UTF-8) and normal kernel in the installed Debian with 8-bit encoding. The installer supports all required 8-bit encodings so I don't think changes will be required in it. Infact in the past this was the standard behaviour of the installer on Linux, namely to use UTF-8 during the installation and 8-bit encoding after the installation. I think on normal FreeBSD console-setup works "out of the box". So if some developer has FreeBSD (not Debian) and wants to see how console-setup works there (s)he can test console-setup using its source package: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-setup/console-setup_1.75.tar.gz Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120415074014.ga2...@debian.lan
