I've been having a bit of trouble for some time with the characters displayed on the virtual consoles (I blame genetics compounded by anno domini). Specifically, a zero is always displayed with a device to distinguish it from an O, even though the shapes of those characters differ without the need of any artifice.
Until recently I was setting my consoles to use en_GB.ISO-8859-1, and a zero had a central dot; whereas, since I switched to en_GB.UTF-8 the dot has been replaced with a diagonal bar like a solidus. Not only do I think both of these are unnecessary, they actually cause me confusion in that they both make a zero look like an 8! Sometimes the resemblance is so compelling that I'll happily use the wrong digit in bash commands and so on, so it's not just a cosmetic problem. My question is: where would I have to go to change the definition of a zero character for display on a virtual console? I've looked in a few places but nothing leaps out at me so far. Possibly, another character set exists already that I could use instead of what I have, but the prospect of trying all those available under /usr/share/consolefonts fills me with dread. In delightful contrast with the VCs, konsole uses a much clearer character set, but I can't use that on an X-less system. -- Rgds Peter -- [email protected] mailing list
