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authorTom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>2012-09-25 22:22:05 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>2012-10-03 15:42:19 +0200
commitf51356b4628822a58ddecd217b0e5e079e39499e (patch)
tree71710d76e955e9c0e544a24f2c718b0424605e03 /man/vconsole.conf.xml
parentffc227c9568eb0a12dc750761d1e5d68ea125aad (diff)
vconsole: default to the kernel compiled-in font
No longer override the default kernel font if nothing is specified in vconsole.conf. The default kernel font[0] provides ISO-8859-1 and box characters. Users of Arabic, Cyrilic or Hebrew must set a different font manually as these character sets were provided by the old default font [1], but are not any longer. Rationale: * it is counter-intuitive that an empty vconsole.conf file is different from adding FONT=""; * the version of the default font shipped with Arch (which is the upstream one) behaves very badly during early boot[2] (which should admittedly be fixed in the font itself); * the kernel already supplies a default font, it seems reasonable to use that unless anything else is specified; * This also avoids a needless slow call to setfont; and * We don't want to work around problems in the kernel (in case the compiled-in font is not acceptable for whatever reason). [0]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/kernel.bdf> [1]: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/latarcyrheb.bdf> [2]: <http://i.imgur.com/J2tM4.jpg>
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diff --git a/man/vconsole.conf.xml b/man/vconsole.conf.xml
index e23a980232..258c82bc62 100644
--- a/man/vconsole.conf.xml
+++ b/man/vconsole.conf.xml
@@ -112,9 +112,7 @@
<listitem><para>Configures the console
font, the console map and the unicode
- font map. <varname>FONT=</varname>
- defaults to
- <literal>latarcyrheb-sun16</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ font map.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>