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

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

The following reply was made to PR port-shark/37670; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-shark-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-shark/37670: a lot of characters missing from igsfb wscons
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:00:35 -0700 (MST)

 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