When installing, anaconda writes a /etc/vconsole.conf any time `keyboard.vc_keymap` is set, which I think it pretty much always is (thanks to `populate_missing_items`). Unless I'm missing something, it *always* includes this line: FONT="eurlatgr" because the code says: fobj.write('FONT="%s"\n' % DEFAULT_VC_FONT) and DEFAULT_VC_FONT is a constant set to 'eurlatgr' in constants.py. In other words, there is no accounting for languages for which eurlatgr is a bad choice. This is unfortunate, because it means that after doing an install in Russian, Hebrew or Arabic, any translated string on the console will just appear as blobs: eurlatgr has no support for Cyrillic, Hebrew or Arabic characters. DEFAULT_VC_FONT used to be 'latarcyrheb-sun16', which does support Arabic, Cyrillic and Hebrew characters, but doesn't support Greek or many Latin 'special characters' used for western European languages. The change was made back in F22: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NewDefaultConsoleFont but note that Change page claims "Arabic/Cyrillic/Hebrew are not supported at all by eurlatgr so those users should still stay with latarcyrheb-sun16", which clearly wasn't actually implemented: we just gave everyone eurlatgr. Obviously what we ought to be doing is picking latarcyrheb-sun16 when appropriate (and maybe another layout for other languages? Not sure if there are any with significant translations that aren't covered by one or the other; possibly CJK and Indic, though I don't know if there are good console fonts for either of those. Doing Chinese in a console font is obviously unrealistic...) We actually already have a bunch of code for this: see `get_locale_console_fonts` in pyanaconda/localization.py (and what it's used for). This exists as a consequence of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182562 , where we noticed that an appropriate font is not used during text installation; now we have that code to discover an appropriate console font and load it during text installation. But we never thought to apply the same logic to the console font configured for use *after* the installation.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle. Changing version to '26'.
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