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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:33:18 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Antony Uspensky <uspensky@x-art.ru>
To:        adg@a-real.ru
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VT not showing cyrillic characters in text mode
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1610261918130.71048@gw-old.x-art.ru>
In-Reply-To: <382398c982b00cdf34eccb4f56950871@a-real.ru>
References:  <382398c982b00cdf34eccb4f56950871@a-real.ru>

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2016, adg@a-real.ru wrote:

> Hello everyone.
>
> Cannot figure out if vt console driver supports non-ansi characters when 
> started in textmode. The font in sys/dev/vt/vt_font_default.c seems to 
> include cyrillic glyphs, but either it is not being used in textmode or 
> something else is broken since only '?' are displayed instead of proper 
> symbols. The LANG/LC_ALL doesn't affect anything. The problem occurs on 
> 11.0-RELEASE and 10.3-RELEASE.
> Textmode is required for me since vt performance in graphical mode is very 
> poor on HyperV and textmode looks like the only option.

VT cannot load fonts in text mode - man vt.
If you need loadable fonts in text mode console - use sc.



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