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From: Chris Bannister on 7 May 2008 04:00
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> Chris Bannister <mockingbird(a)earthlight.co.nz> writes:
> >
> > Interesting, I have:
> > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
> > and in /etc/console-tools/config
> > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16
> > With that setup, Dotan Cohen's line looks like solid black squares
> > separated by dashes.
>
> You mean this is happening on the Linux console, right?

Yes.

> Your LANG setting is fine, but the "lat0-sun16" console font doesn't
> contain any Hebrew characters, so that's why you're getting solid
> black squares (indicating "no character available") separated by
> dashes. You can load a Hebrew font on the current console:
>
> consolechars -f iso08.f16.psf.gz
>
> and Dotan's list should show up fine, but then accented latin
> characters won't be available.

Ahhhhhh so it does, but the little arrows which point to the messages in
each thread in the index view have lost their shaft.

> I think without special support, the Linux console handles only 256
> characters at once (or 512 if you're willing to give up bold text).
> You can use the "dynafont" package, which uses dynamic font loading
> tricks to allow displaying text that requires more code space than
> that. It comes with a font that includes about 7900 glyphs and does
> pretty well if you don't care about Asian language support.

Ahhhh, I see, so that where the "512 glyph" phrase comes from?

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From: NN_il_Confusionario on 7 May 2008 06:10
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:03:39PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Since the linux console can only display alphabetic characters, and
> Hebrew probably looks like a lot of "squiggles", then I very much doubt
> it is possible to see any Hebrew in the Linux console.

Some hits from

linux console unicode hebrew - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+console+unicode+hebrew&num=100

for example

Linkname: Re: How to setup the console to greek ?: msg#00015
URL: http://osdir.com/ml/debian.internationalization.hellas/2004-12/msg00015.html

seem to imply the contrary (font LatArCyrHeb)

I have NOT personally checked.

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From: Tzafrir Cohen on 7 May 2008 14:30
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
> Chris Bannister <mockingbird(a)earthlight.co.nz> writes:
> >
> > Interesting, I have:
> > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
> > and in /etc/console-tools/config
> > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16
> > With that setup, Dotan Cohen's line looks like solid black squares
> > separated by dashes.
>
> You mean this is happening on the Linux console, right?
>
> Your LANG setting is fine, but the "lat0-sun16" console font doesn't
> contain any Hebrew characters, so that's why you're getting solid
> black squares (indicating "no character available") separated by
> dashes. You can load a Hebrew font on the current console:
>
> consolechars -f iso08.f16.psf.gz
>
> and Dotan's list should show up fine, but then accented latin
> characters won't be available.
>
> I think without special support, the Linux console handles only 256
> characters at once (or 512 if you're willing to give up bold text).
> You can use the "dynafont" package, which uses dynamic font loading
> tricks to allow displaying text that requires more code space than
> that. It comes with a font that includes about 7900 glyphs and does
> pretty well if you don't care about Asian language support.

Or use the ugly hack called LatArCyrHeb, to have characters of Latin,
Arabic, Cyrrilic and Hebrew. But sadly, without line-drawing characters.

Or use "iso08" like the ancient ones :-(
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