[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#421390: I want the tools, not your damn font!

[Albert Cahalan]

> at line 170 of /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh you call unicode_start
> in this way:
> unicode_start < /dev/tty? > /dev/tty?
> without specifying the font. Without this option unicode_start will load
> a default font.
> I think that the right way should be:
> unicode_start ${CONSOLE_FONT} < /dev/tty? > /dev/tty?
> since ${CONSOLE_FONT} contains the font chosen by the user.

That's wrong too, since it'd still load a default font.

I had to uninstall this defective package because it insisted
on loading a font at boot. That really screwed me up, as I was
using a kernel-supplied framebuffer font that wasn't available.
An 8-pixel-wide font is no good for me. I'm sure other people
have nice 9x16 VGA ROM fonts they'd like to keep. (can you even
handle a 9-pixel-wide VGA font correctly?) In any case, DO NOT LOAD
A FONT BY DEFAULT!!!!

The most serious problem is in unicode_start, which should just issue
the command to put the console in UTF-8 mode without touching the
console font.

It might also be wrong to be putting the console in UTF-8 mode,
but that's at least debatable.