Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:16:24PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >> >> The problem is putting the console in UTF-8 mode means at least >> ensuring that the console font MAP is a UTF-8 one. >> > > Are there still console fonts with no UTF-8 map in Debian? If there > are any, this should be fixed. > > In my opinion we should be assuming that the font has UTF-8 map and > unicode_start should not load a font. > > I think all the console fonts as shipped have UTF-8 maps; if the users changes that, then on their own head be it.
I'm not sure about the default fonts on various archs, though: can we presume they are all ASCII and not ISO-88859-1? Regards Alastair >> I will remove it from Debian later this year (after mid-June, when I >> have time) once I've checked it for patches and other functionality >> that should be added to kbd (or something else) for lenny. >> > > Soon I will make an upload of kbd with some functionality of > console-tools added (mostly the things configurable by > /etc/console-tools/config except DO_VCSTIME). What else is missing? > > I need to do a check of changes made to console-tools since the kbd fork. Regards Alastair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]