Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts? | Date | 26 Feb 2001 23:34:42 -0800 |
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Followup to: <F281raFC8XymNMDdckH00012e6f@hotmail.com> By author: "Mack Stevenson" <mackstevenson@hotmail.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hello, > > The 8x16 and Sun 12x22 kernel fonts I tried seem to lack some standard > glyphs necessary to represent the entire ISO-8859-1 charmap; I am talking > about all accented capital vowels except for 'É'. > > This seems to happen in both 2.2.16 as well as in 2.2.18. > > Is this intentional? If so, why? > > How can I override this behaviour? >
They're probably CP 437 fonts. Just load your own; e.g. "setfont lat1u-16".
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