On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 05:10:46PM +0000, David Shaw wrote: > Stupid question time. > > What font would be appropriate for a British set up? I cannot make head > nor tail of the options available. >
Try them. I've no idea how your screen is set up, but *for just english* lat1-16.psfu.gz (so "lat1-16") is probably an adequate place to begine. Once your new system is usable, take time to play with the fonts in /lib/kbd/consolefonts *as a normal user* (so, only in one tty! - if things go bad, log out from that tty). Some will be too small, others too big. Probably, some offend your aesthetics. For UTF-8 text, you also need to decide which languages you wish to cover (the console can only do at most 512 glyphs). If you are really keen, I'll point you to my own sigma-consolefonts (8x16) and LatGrkCyr (12x22) at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/fonts/ - the 12x22 is slightly buggy at the moment (a few kildin-sami glyphs don't display!). Most people don't need a font this big. My sigma fonts include some example alphabets, and might be useful to help you review the coverage of other fonts even if you dislike mine. In general, any psfu font will work for displaying unicode, but most only cover a small subset of the available glyphs, so the letter I use to sign my name in my posts is often not rendered. Some fonts also have issues with undefined glyphs - those ought to render as an inverse-video question mark, but I think I've seen some fonts do other things. Also, certain fonts render some accented letters without the accent. > At least the keymap is nice and easy to work out :-) Actually, that depends on your keyboard - some laptops have very weird variations. > > Many thanks, > > David Shaw > -- ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
