On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:30:00AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:41:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Why consolechars -d? I thought that was already found not to be > > satisfactory. > > No, consolechars -d always gives me the best font. Since the command > loads the default font it should be loaded at bootup. Instead, as
So everything looks Ok in mutt if you do "consolechars -d"? > described above, the font changes at least twice during bootup. When > bootup is complete the ASCII characters 1-128 are ok but the ASCII > characters 129-256 are a problem. Double frame symbols are used to > indicate threading instead of single frame symbols and the capital N's > with tilde appear in the lines. The result can be read but it is not > easy to spot where a thread ends and a new subject starts. > > How have you set up the locale setting - "dpkg-reconfigure locales"? > > Only en_US_UTF-8 is selected. That isn't one of the options. Do you mean en_US.UTF-8? > > You are running mutt in the virtual console, i.e. non gui, and you are > > not ssh'ing from another machine? > > I am using command line entries on tty1 through tty6 and I usually start > mutt on tty2. Same here, and with console-terminus installed and the Uni3-TerminusBold16 font I can see more foreign characters in mutt. I am a bit stumped as to why it is not working for you. Ummm what is the output of: apt-cache policy {kbd,console-data,console-setup,console-tools} Mine is: kbd: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.14.1-4 Version table: 1.14.1-4 0 500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages console-data: Installed: 2:1.07-11 Candidate: 2:1.07-11 Version table: *** 2:1.07-11 0 500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status console-setup: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.28 Version table: 1.28 0 500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages console-tools: Installed: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Candidate: 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Version table: *** 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 0 500 http://debian.attica.net.nz lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status AIUI, you use either console-tools ** OR ** kbd to set the font. So if you have 'kbd' installed, I'd purge it and that way you know that only settings in /etc/console-tools/config are being used. -- Chris. ====== I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org