On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:20:32PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 May 2016 at 01:13:34 (+1200), cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 11:11:27AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > But I am only using <quote from the configuration> us-ascii, iso-8859-1, > > > utf-8 > > > (locale) and utf-8</quote>, with a locale of en_GB.UTF-8, so not very > > > abstruse in view of the fact that I have correspondents in, and therefore > > > correspondence from, Japan, Greece and Israel in addition to the > > > Anglo-Saxon > > > countries. > > > > I'm running utf8 also, but if your font can't display the chars/glyphs then > > it won't help. > > If I’m not mistaken, it’s *your* font that’s lacking the necessary > glyphs, like ’. What is it, BTW?
I didn't think someone would read it that way. I was meaning "your" in a general way, not explicitly meaning Lisi's font. What is the systemd command to show the font being used on the console? (hint ... /etc/vconsole.conf doesn't exist) After a bit of googling, It seems to be done via the console-setup package which I don't have installed! Weird. So I installed the console-setup package and chose (eventually): UTF <OK> Guess optimal character set <OK> TerminusBold <OK> 8x16 <OK> and the wee squares disappeared (at least in this mail, I've deleted the others in this thread.) So, actually the answer to your question is that I have no idea what font I was running on this system to give the "wee squares" If I choose Terminus instead of TerminusBold, then the ’ changes to a sort of D shape with a squiggle on top! I'm guessing the char was a right side single curly quote, that you posted David? Although, IIRC, the typographical single quotes and double quotes are a rather peculiar case anyway. -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
