Bug 75316

Summary:	lInstaller chooses incomplete console font for european countries
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	kbd	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2002-10-07 08:38:52 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
When I choose an install using fr-latin0, the installer decides to use
latarcyheb-sun16 as console font.

This console font does not include the euro symbo, yet I've explicitely
requested euro support by choosing latin0 support.

While I'm grateful for the cyrillic support, I couldn't care less about the
hebrew one and anyway correct latin9 support is more important.

RH has been shipping euro console fonts (latin9*) for a few versions, but
curiously never bothered to use them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Type euro

Actual Results:  see garbage

Expected Results:  &#65533;

Additional info:

Please ship a euro-compliant distro, it's not as if it were a new problem anymore

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-10-07 21:03:10 UTC

The font is chosen as the one with the "best" coverage for a unicode console,
which is required now that we are using a unicode locale.  Reassigning to kbd
since that's where the font is.

Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2002-10-08 07:50:21 UTC

Well, there are perfectly complete latin9 fonts shipped with redhat, in a sane
world it should be possible to build a paneuropean font by aggregating these
fonts with others.

I suppose the wrong one was chosen because of the unholy latin0 mess Red Hat got
itself in a few years ago.

Comment 3 Carlos Rodrigues 2002-10-08 14:47:12 UTC

I also can't use the euro symbol, not even after getting rid of the whole 
unicode thing. It worked fine in 7.3. I can't get away of the feeling that if 
it isn't broken don't fix it.

Comment 4 Eido Inoue 2004-02-27 01:31:59 UTC

there's only so many characters that we can support in text mode at
one time. the alternative is to change your default to a font that
supports the euro (or the character you need), or to use a GUI if you
need a wider character range support.

Comment 5 Nicolas Mailhot 2004-02-27 08:54:39 UTC

Excuse me but I do believe the euro zone have enough people inside it
fo the euro character to be mandatory inside the default font;)

Comment 6 Eido Inoue 2004-02-27 22:41:44 UTC

after double-checking this bug (with showcfont from console-tools as
well as psfgettable to see the Unicode mappings).

I discovered that our default font DOES have the Euro character as
position 0x0AD. However, according to psfgettable, the character seems
to be incorrectly mapped to U+00AD U+2010 U+2011 and U+2013 (It's 0xA4
in Latin-9 aka ISO-8859-15, and U+20AC in Unicode)

Comment 7 Eido Inoue 2004-08-10 23:14:17 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127265 ***

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:46 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.