[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#443645: let unicode_start honor CONSOLE_FONT from /etc/kbd/config

Michael Schutte m.schutte.jr at gmail.com
Sat May 31 07:18:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:57:41PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:31:21PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote:
> > I’ve prepared another upload for kbd
> 
> I uploaded it.

Thanks a lot.

> > I also thought about #443645 for a while, but then definitely decided
> > against doing anything on it for Lenny. 
> 
> Regarding this my opinion is that by default unicode_start should not 
> change the font on the console.

It definitely shouldn’t.  I just noticed that console-tools does the
right thing: unicode_start only changes font if one is given on the
command line.  This implies that keymap.sh’s result depends on whether
kbd or console-tools is installed.  Coming to think about it, this alone
should warrant a Debian-specific divergence from upstream.

> Nobody says that UTF-8 has to be accompanied with a large font.  For
> most users even the default VGA font can be used with no problems in
> UTF-8 mode.  On the other hand the users who need non-cp437 character
> set support know that they need to load non-standard font and it is
> not the job of unicode_start to do this. It is not the job of
> unicode_start to look in /etc/kbd/config, its only job should be to
> set up the console in utf-8 mode.

Agreed.

> I suppose this needs to be discussed with upstream rathar than doing
> the changes only for Debian.

I’ll contact him today, but I doubt that he wants to break the behaviour
some people will expect.

-- 
Michael Schutte <m.schutte.jr at gmail.com>
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