Re: port-shark/37670: a lot of characters missing from igsfb wscons

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael L. Hitch wrote:

>  So I can't figure out where the heck the font characters are really
> coming from.

AHA!  Now I know what is happening.

The default font used by wsfont if none are explicitly specified in the
kernel config file is bold8x16.  That font has an encoding of 
WSDISPLAY_FONTENC_IBM, which causes wsfont.c to remap the displayed
characters, and that mapping has an entry for the 0xdc character, but none 
for 0xdd - 0xdf, which matches what I actually see displayed.

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA