Bug 89261 – The Swedish consolefont, lat0-16, is missing important characters

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erik Östlund 2005-04-15 22:53:02 UTC]

I followed the Gentoo Localization Guide to get a Swedish keyboard layout and a Swedish console font. The guide doesn't specify which consolefont to use so I searched google and found KEYMAP="sv-latin1" and CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16",

 I edited rc.conf, rebooted the system and allthough I now have the Swedish special characters (

[Comment 1 Erik Östlund 2005-04-15 22:53:02 UTC]

I followed the Gentoo Localization Guide to get a Swedish keyboard layout and a Swedish console font. The guide doesn't specify which consolefont to use so I searched google and found KEYMAP="sv-latin1" and CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16",

 I edited rc.conf, rebooted the system and allthough I now have the Swedish special characters (å, ä and ö) I don't have the upper-case version of those characters (Å, Ä, and Ö).

 I asked on #gentoo and it turned out the person who tried to help me noticed he had the same problem.

 It would be nice if the guide contained a chart detailing what KEYMAP and CONSOLEFONT values to use. Maybe the files in /usr/share/keymaps and /usr/share/consolefonts could be named after country instead, much like /usr/share/zoneinfo 

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr  9 2005, 16:35:04)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
LC_ALL="sv_SE"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
curl emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2
mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib png qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Failed to write to mtimedb: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/mtimedb'
bash-2.05b$ sudo su
bash-2.05b# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr  9 2005, 16:35:04)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo
http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt
curl emboss encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2
imagemagick imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2
mmxext motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam
pdflib png qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-16 06:09:57 UTC]

If you are using Latin-1 enconding, you should probably use Latin-1 consolefont as well. Does CONSOLEFONT="lat1-16" work correctly for you?

[Comment 3 Erik Östlund 2005-04-16 09:20:53 UTC]

 No, the lat1-16 font is unusable. Also the top three hits on Google for "swedish" and "consolefont" recommend lat0-16. Is there any way I can change the consolefont without rebooting? That way I can try all the lat1-XX fonts quickly.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-04-16 10:07:33 UTC]

man setfont ;-)

[Comment 5 Erik Östlund 2005-04-16 23:17:41 UTC]

Thank you, I tried a few and lat9-16 seems to do the trick.