Re: non-Latin1 on the console

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 11:39:29 -0800 (PST)

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>
> Thus, the conclusion is that if one wants to use Latin-2 on
> the console, without going into UTF-8 mode, then
> setfont iso02.f16 -u iso02; setfont iso02.f16
> works well (by making sure that the kernel's unicode tables
> are not used).
>
> So, it looks like the console is broken for non-UTF-8 mode
> when one uses anything but Latin-1 (or sets straight-to-the
> font mode, e.g. by printing `ESC ( K').
> In the good old days things used to work, I think.
>
> Comments? hpa? Anyone who uses Latin-2 daily instead of once a year?
>

This is indeed pretty bad. I will try to look into it this week.

These days I use the console so rarely... :(

-hpa

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