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Subject: bug#30505: Starting console/terminal Unicode support
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:09:53 +0100
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hey,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

>> Usually I'm not a fan of overriding user settings (in this case the kern=
el
>> command line) but in this case it's OK since the rest of the system at l=
east
>> can be sure that we have UTF-8 VTs.
>
> Aha, the gnu/services/base.scm tries to make sure that an UTF-8 aware uni=
code
> font is already loaded before switching the tty to UTF-8.  We would have =
to
> set default_utf8 earlier (before even the vt is activated), otherwise the
> setting wouldn't be copied to the new terminal.

You=E2=80=99re talking about %default-console-font?  What does that change?

I=E2=80=99m lost.  :-)

We have the following options:

  1. status quo, i.e., tcsetattr without %G in the =E2=80=98term-ttyN=E2=80=
=99 services;

  2. remove the tcsetattr call, write =E2=80=9C1=E2=80=9D to
     /sys/module/vt/parameters/default_utf8;

  3. do nothing (no tcsetattr, no /sys, no %G).

It seems that systemd does everything: %G, tcsetattr, and /sys.

What do we do now?

Ludo=E2=80=99.