How do I get to see a decent screenfont in the virtual (old-fashioned) terminals? Maybe I posted my orginal question in the wrong forum (see quot;Establishing TTY character setquot; in Installation amp; Upgrades). But I doubt it because similar questions have gone unanswered in this forum for months, according to search results.
For the time being I just want to see, on the TTY console screens, the same characters I am seeing when I bring up a terminal in GUI mode. charset G0 and G1 certainly don't do it.
I'll deal with the keyboard map myself later...
It's not as if I was asking for something revolutionary -- vt screenfonts with proper accents etc. have been available for many years. Don't tell me we're starting to be ruled by the Orwellian quot;Downgrading is upgradingquot; approach: I thought only Microsoft did that. I love my new Feisty Fawn! Why does it have to be spoiled by anti-TTY prejudice?
This post could be related to an bug filed at: ubuntu/+bug/130444 ----------------------------
To bring this up to date... I have filed this as a bug but am still hoping for help from the General Help forum - maybe from Europeans or Latin Americans, who seem to care about accents.
The problem is definitely about echoing to screen. The characters are all quot;therequot;, and if I write something on a TTY virtual terminal with an accent I can't see, then read the file on the GUI terminal, the accent shows up where I put it.
I have also noticed that the caps lock does not work in the TTY terminals - maybe a clue?
I know most of you think I'm crazy for wanting quot;alienquot; accents to show on a virtual terminal screen, but this is not just about accents. The border-drawing characters are messed up too, so Midnight Commander looks like my unweeded front yard. Surely a lot of you use mc when you're on a virtual terminal?
Originally Posted by ThrasyllusThis post could be related to an bug filed at: ubuntu/+bug/130444 ----------------------------
To bring this up to date... I have filed this as a bug but am still hoping for help from the General Help forum - maybe from Europeans or Latin Americans, who seem to care about accents.
The problem is definitely about echoing to screen. The characters are all quot;therequot;, and if I write something on a TTY virtual terminal with an accent I can't see, then read the file on the GUI terminal, the accent shows up where I put it.
I have also noticed that the caps lock does not work in the TTY terminals - maybe a clue?
I know most of you think I'm crazy for wanting quot;alienquot; accents to show on a virtual terminal screen, but this is not just about accents. The border-drawing characters are messed up too, so Midnight Commander looks like my unweeded front yard. Surely a lot of you use mc when you're on a virtual terminal?
Maybe it is just a tty setting? Compare the output of quot;stty -aquot; in an xterm and a virtual terminal. |
Post at 2011-1-22 01:50
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