On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 09:29:30AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I gave up and installed kbd. On boot up the initial font was large. > About half way through the boot up the scripts changed to tiny fonts and > then after a half dozen lines switched back to large fonts. The console > is now very readable but when mutt displays the threaded list of > postings the lines and arrows are replaces by strange characters.
This is most likely due to a mismatch between your locale character set (charmap) and the encoding of the console font. I'd advise using UTF-8 for both. You can check the locale codeset with % locale -k charmap ==> charmap="UTF-8" Because the Linux console has a limited number of characters (512 IIRC), you need to choose a subset of Unicodei, which is why there are separate Uni1, Uni2 and Uni3 fonts. I use Uni2 myself. All have the basic Latin characters, but different Greek/Cyrillic/Arabic/Symbol characters. IIRC Uni2 has more symbols, but try them all out to see which works best for you. If you're not using UTF-8, then you'll need to choose the exact same encoding as your locale charmap. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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