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SubjectRe: Accents bug in kernel 2.2.0pre5
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.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)

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