On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 01:48:43PM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > … However, these fontsets come at the price of the reduced color > capability for the text terminals.
This doesn't happen when framebuffer is used. With modern kernels framebuffer is more or less a requirement. > > > 2. Small fontsets (256 glyphs) are for one language only. > > That’s hardly the case; for instance, how do you explain that > the CyrSlav fontset includes ñ? Is it used in any languages > that rely on the Cyrillic script? No, the letter ñ is not included in the CyrSlav fontset. The symbols from the file useful.set are included in the generated fonts by the bdf2psf utility only when there are free positions. The letter ñ is listed number 109 in this file. > > Users who need multilingual support should use Uni1, Uni2 or Uni3. > > FWIW, I’d gladly accept a facility allowing the user to use > custom fontsets for a fix to this issue. Yes, custom fontsets are supported. One only has to put the corresponding font in /usr/share/consolefonts and use an instruction like FONT=CyrEo-Terminus16.psf.gz in /etc/default/console-setup. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
