On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 16:52:30 (+1200), cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 09:16:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > And here's my observation. When you type real quotation marks (ie ‘’“”), > > the correct glyphs appear on the screen. After changing font, those > > glyphs turn into different glyphs, but freshly typed quotation marks > > appear with the correct glyphs. > > > > I have no idea why this happens, but it does mean that your statement > > above needs qualification. The glyphs that change to a sort of D shape > > with a squiggle on top, are these glyphs that were already on the > > screen before you changed choice, or are they fresh glyphs written > > afterwards? > > They were fresh glyphs written afterwards. The glyps I got were dependant on > the > setting I chose in the second screen (after choosing UTF from the first.) > while > doing 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup'. > > I've now got it set to 'Guess optimal character set' which does do the quotes. > It was when choosing the other options i noticed the D shape with a squiggle > on > top. > > There is also setupcon (man setupcon) which may be of some interest.
Yes, that's what I used to use: setupcon -f console-setup.foo (aliased, naturally) where foo was small/medium/large/huge and the associated files (in /etc/default) had the appropriate CODESET="Lat15" FONTFACE="Terminus" FONTSIZE="10x20" lines. But now I just call up the actual font file, and just for one VC at a time. (I wonder why it's FONTSIZE="10x20" but Lat15-Terminus20x10.) > Once I got the dlyphs showing correctly I didn't bother with the > technicalities > any further --- although what the option 'Guess optimal character set' is > actually > doing behind the scenes *may* be an option for further perusal. /bin/setupcon is just a script. AFAICT guessing the CHARMAP just uses the locale's value. In turn, guessing the CODESET uses $CHARMAP in a case statement. Cheers, David.