[Bug 133072] Re: tty console doen't show characters with accent

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

I believe the problem is in setfont, so I'm adding "kdb" to the affected
projects.

setfont should at least indicate an error if it's unable to load the
font because of grub graphics mode/plymouth/KMS/whatever, right?

It now happily says
"Loading 512-char 8x16 font from file /etc/console-setup/Uni2-TerminusBold16.psf
Loading Unicode mapping table..."
when I turn on its verbose mode in my /bin/setfont wrapper, but of course that font is never loaded unless I disable the grub graphics mode, vt.handoff=7, and KMS with nomodeset.

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Title:
  tty console doen't show characters with accent

Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “kbd” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In Kubuntu 7.10 tribe 4, tty console (out of X) cannot display characters with accent, also can't display 'ñ' and '€'.
  Locale value:

  LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=es_ES:es:en_GB:en
  LC_CTYPE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_ES.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=

  Thanks for your atention.

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