Bug 249744

Summary:	[RU] Russian Unicode guide suggests non-unicode console font
Product:	Doc Translations	Reporter:	Vladimir Berezhnoy <non7top>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	azamat.hackimov
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ru/utf-8.xml
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Description Vladimir Berezhnoy 2008-12-03 22:08:27 UTC

If users follows the guide and sets up the /etc/conf.d/consolefont with 
CONSOLEFONT="ter-k14n"
this will result in messed up virtual terminal as Cyrillic characters will not be displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set locale to LC_ALL=ru_RU.utf-8
2. Set CONSOLEFONT="ter-k14n" in /etc/conf.d/consolefont


Actual Results:  
All Cyrillic characters will not be displayed correctly in virtual terminal.

Expected Results:  
Cyrillic characters should be normal if user sets all things up according to official docs.

The ter-k14n font is a koi8-r font according to terminus-font docs. I suggest that the documentation should suggest setting CONSOLEFONT to cyr-sun16 which similar to default console font and is installed by default.

Comment 1 Azamat H. Hackimov 2008-12-04 16:44:01 UTC

You are wrong, terminus fonts fully utf8 aware. Your problem is, probable, in console settings. Did you made nesessary changes for /etc/conf.d/keymaps?

Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-08 11:10:38 UTC

Vladimir, answer question in comment #1. Thank you.

Comment 3 Vladimir Berezhnoy 2008-12-09 09:32:26 UTC

Azamat is right. My problem was that when consolefont service has been restarted all Cyrillic symbols already on screen has changed to wrong characters, but any new character are displayed correctly. So this bug should be considered as invalid.