Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:45:49 +0000 | From | Michel Catudal <> | Subject | Re: setfont does not work 2.0 -> 2.1 ? |
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Nimrod Zimerman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 08:20:14PM +0200, Andrus Kangro wrote: > > > I'm using iso01.f16 font for console, as I'm using characters õäöü (o~ a" > > o" u") when writing e-mail in Pine. With 2.0.35 everything is OK, but with > > 2.[12] series kernels I can't see these characters any more (o~ is o and > > o" a" u" just disappear). in xterm everything is OK, but in console I just > > don't see them. I have to use cp850-8x16 now, where o~ is o, but a" o" u" > > are normal. > > This is potentially an issue with the default Unicode map. It appears that > things it doesn't like - it doesn't show. I experienced the same problem > with Hebrew characters which I use - and just disappeared after I switched > to 2.1.x. > > My solution was to switch back to the dumb Unicode map (or, if you have a > more accurate map, use it). It goes something like > 'loadunimap /usr/lib/kbd/consoletrans/def.uni', assuming the map is > installed in its default location. 'loadunimap' is from the kbd package. > > Please let me know if that solved your problem. It might be a good idea to > add this to the Changes file, if that is indeed the case. >
I fixed the problem by adding this to the profile
UNIMAP=iso01.uni export UNIMAP
I haven't had a problem with this since. It seems that if it doesn't see that environment variable it defaults to some crappy anglo unimap.
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