Re: commit a29ccf6f823a84d89e1c7aaaf221cf7282022024 break console on slackware 12.1

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>]

On 30-07-08 02:30, Grant Coady wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:03:47 -0700, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:
> 
>> Marco Berizzi wrote:
>>> alistair@devzero.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>> You don't actually say whether you had CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y or not?
>>> yes console_translation is set to yes. It cannot be changed if embedded is not
>>> set.
>> If console_translation is set to yes, the behavior should be unchanged from
>> 2.6.26.  Can you please send me your .config?
>>
>> Also, can you please describe what breakage you are seeing?
> 
> I have the same issue, the line drawing characters are displayed as an odd 
> looking C with a tail.  Slackware-12.1 and Slamd64-12.1.
> 
> .configs:
>   http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz
>   http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh64/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz
> 
> CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y ?? yes it's on

Sorry, didn't read the thread so just hoping to say something useful:

slackware 12.1 installes by default with "vt.default_utf8=0" as a kernel 
param which may be involved here. I saw that picture that someone posted 
and to me that was nothing new -- my console has always looked that way 
if I set my locale to a UTF8 locale but do not change the console font.

"LANG=C menuconfig" works for me when I can't, won't or just don't start 
X with it's terminals with UTF8 fonts...

Please just ignore if not a useful reply.

Rene.