Bill Nottingham wrote:
We currently display Arabic and Hebrew translations on the virtual
console in LTR mode using the glyphs in latarcyrheb-sun16. Obviously,
that's not the preferred way.
I would like to describe some related issue here.
Since RedHat Linux 8, "latarcyrherb-sun16" is the default console font.
It seems that it was chosen in assumption that
ascii+latin+cyrillic+hebrew+arabic in one a font should satisfy all the
needs of console users.
But "latarcyrheb-sun16" is so-called 512-glyphs font. Unfortunately,
there is a restriction in hardware, which decreases the amount of
available console colors if console font has more than 256 glyphs.
As a result, people who (for some reasons) use TUI on console have no
yellow and bolding anymore.
The solution looks simple -- just change the default "latarcyrheb-sun16"
to some old good 256-gliph font. It is an obvious thing, especially in
fact that actually the "latin+cyrillic+hebrew+arabic" combination seems
never used in a real life of console. What seems to be used is just
"ascii + local native language" (ie. ascii+latin1, ascii+cyrillic etc.),
and such combinations do not exceed 256-glyph limit.
But the switch to some of old 256-glyph fonts leads to lack of some
glyphs (fe. euro sign) which became needed now. Hence it would be fine
to split latarcyrheb-sun16 to several 256-glyphs fonts and use such
fonts by default on console.
Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
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