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

[Alastair McKinstry]

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