Bug 80686 - RFE: vconsole: There should be a way to load a second font
Summary: RFE: vconsole: There should be a way to load a second font
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: systemd
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: systemd-bugs
QA Contact: systemd-bugs
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Reported: 2014-06-29 18:12 UTC by Samuel Thibault
Modified: 2014-07-03 14:32 UTC (History)
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Description Samuel Thibault 2014-06-29 18:12:52 UTC 
Hello,

The rationale details is in the console-setup bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508862

In short, to properly handle unicode braille on the linux console, one
has to load braille glyphs. Rather than extending each and every font to
include braille patterns, systemd should provide a way to load a second
font for braille patterns.

The same holds for cyrillic, greek, etc.

Samuel

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