On 04/07/15, Nicholas Boel said the following...
 
 NB>  AI> I wonder what font slackware uses by default. I never changed the fon
 NB>  AI> on slack, it has always just worked (non-UTF-8).
 NB> 
 NB> Couple questions then, I suppose..
 NB> 
 NB> 1) Are you absolutely sure you have a correctly setup UTF-8 console?

Not really, I have been avoiding utf-8 (on the console) but when I used iconv
recently to convert an old logon screen it looked good on my utf-8 terminal.

 NB> 2) Do you have ncurses installed?

I believe so, I never installed it on arch but I have installed multimail and
I believe that depends on ncurses. I'll double check that next time I'm on on
the arch box but I think so.

 NB> 3) Are you using a framebuffer (ie: fbterm or something similar)?

No, unless something like that is used by default. The nouveau module is used
by default and I add nomodeset to my kernel command line or else it seems to
go into 1920x1080 mode on it's own. That looks fine most of the time but if
you want to do any reading it's way to small for my eyes.

I've been meaning to read up on nouveau and try other modes if they are
available.

 NB> 3) What does 'locale' tell you?

LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, I also have en_CA, en_GB* and en_US* compiled so I can use
them if needed.

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

I can only read english so I don't worry about other lanuages. I'll get there
I'm sure. I'll have to look up what fonts are available and what they can do.

Thanks for your help.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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