Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 3 Jun 1998 13:48:22 +0000 Received: (qmail 4043 invoked from network); 3 Jun 1998 13:48:06 -0000 Received: from ppp-48.a2points.com (HELO ppp37.a2points.com) (dwitch@195.10.6.48) by debian.novare.net with SMTP; 3 Jun 1998 13:48:06 -0000 Received: (from dwitch@localhost) by ppp37.a2points.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id PAA01740; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:34:06 +0200 From: Yann Dirson Message-ID: <13685.20678.306630.703945@bylbo.nowhere.earth> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:33:58 +0200 (CEST) To: Debian bug-system submission Subject: fonter: bad handling of displayed chars X-Mailer: VM 6.47 under Emacs 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Package: fonter Version: 1.5-1 Severity: important When the current font is not, as the default is, cp437 encoded, the boxes drawn using semi-graphics chars cannot be correct. That is, most people in non-english countries will have a bad display. Further more, as the font to be edited does not have to contain the semi-graphics chars, there is a bad design here, hence the important severity of this report. My opinion is that the font to be edited should in no case be loaded into the kernel. This is nonsense. It makes bad assumptions about the character height being the same, and about the font encoding being the same, thus making the program basically useless (or at least a real pain to use) for most purposes. Maybe the upstream author would find benefit in reading the "Keyboard and Console HOWTO" by Andries Brouwer (upstream maintainer of kbd), and the "Linux Console Tools docs" by myself (see console-tools* packages in slink, or http://freshmeat.net/appindex?mode=view&item=892659185) Regards, -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check