Hello Alan,

On 06 Apr 15 18:35, Alan Ianson wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> If you don't care to install terminus fonts, you should be able
 NB>> to use the 'default-8x16' font to see ansi properly as well.

 AI> I have the terminus-font package installed and tried default8x16 as
 AI> well and I still don't get high ascii support. I do to different
 AI> degrees with different fonts but I still get ? on my screen at times.

 AI> I wonder what font slackware uses by default. I never changed the font
 AI> on slack, it has always just worked (non-UTF-8).

Couple questions then, I suppose..

1) Are you absolutely sure you have a correctly setup UTF-8 console?
2) Do you have ncurses installed?
3) Are you using a framebuffer (ie: fbterm or something similar)?
3) What does 'locale' tell you?

I don't believe I did anything special on my Archlinux install. It came with a
UTF-8 console out of the box and I just select between a couple fonts I like.
One of which maps the block characters properly, and the other that allows me
to view foreign text like Russian, Ukranian, Greek, and a few others. If I
wanted more than that (ie: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc) I'd most likely have
to go with a framebuffer.

Regards,
Nick

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