Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:58:40 +0200 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: Accents bug in kernel 2.2.0pre5 |
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r> What happens is that we can no longer see the characters correctly r> in the console mode. From a terminal shell on X it works but not r> in a console mode. r> And yes the locale ISO-8859-1 as well as codepages 850 and 863 are r> compiled in the kernel, same as I did for 2.0.36 where it works.
As recently reported, Estonian umlauts have the same problem. The solutions seems to be to add "-m trivial" to your setfont command parameters. This is needed because the unimap semantics have changed in 2.1. When the font loading doesn't provide a new unimap the unimap is not flushed as is was earlier. At least it seems to be the cause.
The hardcoded ISO-8859-1 table in linux console code _REALLY HURTS_ because there is no convenient way to use other code pages.
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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