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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: ISO-8859-1 completeness of kernel fonts?
Date: 26 Feb 2001 23:34:42 -0800
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Followup to:  <F281raFC8XymNMDdckH00012e6f@hotmail.com>
By author:    "Mack Stevenson" <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hello,
> 
> The 8x16 and Sun 12x22 kernel fonts I tried seem to lack some standard 
> glyphs necessary to represent the entire ISO-8859-1 charmap; I am talking 
> about all accented capital vowels except for '?'.
> 
> This seems to happen in both 2.2.16 as well as in 2.2.18.
> 
> Is this intentional? If so, why?
> 
> How can I override this behaviour?
> 

They're probably CP 437 fonts.  Just load your own; e.g. "setfont lat1u-16".

	-hpa
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