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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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