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Bug 42640

Summary: default CONSOLEFONT does not work with special characters
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Florian Effenberger <floeff>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 11:32:29 UTC
The default CONSOLEFONT does not work with special characters like Euro (
Comment 1 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-23 11:32:29 UTC
The default CONSOLEFONT does not work with special characters like Euro () or Umlauts (ö ä ü ß Ö Ä Ü). In /etc/rc.conf, there should be CONSOLEFONT="lat0-16" as standard or another font which contains these characters.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 2 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-24 03:02:55 UTC
Found out some other troubles with console fonts. Closing this bug and will file a  new one soon.
Comment 3 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-24 03:03:38 UTC
Found out some other troubles with console fonts. Closing this bug and will file a  new one soon.