Bug 89446

Summary: Default font not loaded in non-unicode locale
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Carlos Rodrigues <cefrodrigues>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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loads console font even when the locale is not unicode none

Description Carlos Rodrigues 2003-04-22 22:54:38 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I'm not using an utf-8 locale (because I lose the accented characters in the
console, bug #75430) and thus I am defining another font for the console. The
problem is that this font is not loaded on vt's other than the first. I see that
for unicode locales, /etc/profile.d/lang.sh takes care of loading $SYSFONT on
the other vt's but if the locale is not unicode this does not happen.


How reproducible:
Always


Additional info:

The contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n:

LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:pt_PT.UTF-8:pt_PT:pt"
SYSFONT="lat9w-16"
CHARSET="8859-15"

LC_COLLATE="pt_PT@euro"
LC_CTYPE="pt_PT@euro"
LC_MONETARY="pt_PT@euro"
Comment 1 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-07-27 21:50:01 UTC 
Created attachment 93182 [details]
loads console font even when the locale is not unicode

I changed the lang.sh and lang.csh scripts a bit to load the default console
font even when the locale is not unicode.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-09-04 01:12:55 UTC 
This shouldn't be necessary; what problem are you seeing without this?

Fonts don't really need to be called for each console; setting it once should
suffice (the reason unicode_start is called is because there are other issues
that it takes care of.)
Comment 3 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-09-04 11:31:57 UTC 
I'm defining the font lat9w-16 for the console because it has accented
characters (like &aacute; for instance). But (without my changes to lang.sh) it
is only defined for the first vt, so, if I press "´ + a" in the first vt I see
"&aacute;", but if I do the same in the other vt's I see "a".
Comment 4 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-09-07 02:02:57 UTC 
I made a little mistake in my previous comment. Actually "&aacute;" (á) displays
ok but some characters which have a tilde - like "&atilde;" (ã) and "&otilde;"
(õ) do not. Besides this small detail (maybe next time I will reproduce the
problem again instead of trusting my memory of it) my point remains the same.
Comment 5 Carlos Rodrigues 2003-09-07 02:23:01 UTC 
*** Bug 75564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:37:54 UTC 
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

I suspect this was due to a kernel bug, which we worked around in previous releases.

The kernel bug was fixed in 2.6.13 and later.