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

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure about the default fonts on various archs, though: can we
> presume they are all ASCII and not ISO-88859-1?

I am not sure I understand your question.

I think most archs use framebuffer so the font is one of the fonts the
kernel has in its sources.  As far as I could check they all are CP437
encoded which gives pretty good coverage of ISO-8859-1.

I can only suppose that in text mode the default font of the video
card is also CP437 even on non-i386 archs.

Anton Zinoviev