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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.