#2337: Kbd-1.15 doesn't map U+2010 to U+002d in lat1-16 font
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Reporter: matt...@… | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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Old description:
> As shown in the screenshot at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew
> /test-results/preconv.en_utf8.jpg, if one is in a Unicode/UTF-8
> environment, the line-breaking character that is automatically generated
> by man/groff is not displayed correctly. This has been reported upstream
> at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-groff/2009-02/msg00001.html.
New description:
As shown in the screenshot at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew
/test-results/preconv.en_utf8.jpg, if one is in a Unicode/UTF-8
environment, the line-breaking character that is automatically generated
by man/groff is not displayed correctly. This has been reported upstream
at http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/kbd/2009-February/000162.html.
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Comment(by matt...@…):
The fix here is to do the following (thanks to Lefteris Dimitroulakis on
the kbd list):
{{{
cd /lib/kbd/consolefonts
gunzip lat1-16.psfu.gz
psfgettable lat1-16.psfu
sed -i -e 's/U+002d/& U+2010 U+2012 U+2013 U+2212/' table.txt
psfaddtable lat1-16.psfu table.txt lat1-16.psfu.new
mv lat1-16.psfu.new lat1-16.psfu
gzip lat1-16.psfu
}}}
I'm not recommending this for the book, although if others feel it would
be beneficial, I certainly won't mind putting it in. I worry that we
might have to audit all of the existing psfu fonts to ensure that they
correctly map to the hyphen character though. The resultant psfu.gz file
has been submitted upstream and should be downloadable from
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/kbd/2009-February/000164.html
We may also want to figure out what the funny character is that GCC prints
out in some of its warnings, and map that to a backtick or single quote.
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