[BRLTTY] FYI: HandyTech Modular Evolution 88 and Linux console size (88x42)

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le Mon 28 Jun 2010 19:11:01 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> > Sebastian Humenda, le Sat 26 Jun 2010 16:39:44 +0200, a écrit :
> >> >On my Debian system, I put
> >> >
> >> >FONT="Lat15-Terminus14.psf.gz brl-14.psf.gz"
> >> >
> >> >into the file /etc/default/console-setup.
> >> Is Lat15 also okay for a UTF-8 console, or is this not a shortcut vor Latin15?
> >
> > Latin15 doesn't even exist, actually.  I have told the maintainer that
> > the Lat15 name is misleading but he doesn't want to fix it.  Lat15 just
> > means that it provides glyphs for latin1 and latin5.  It happens to also
> > provide glyphs for latin9.
> 
> I always thought Lat15 refered to ISO-8859-15 ?

Nope, ISO-8859-15's little name is "latin9" actually. This is because
not all ISO-8859-x charsets are encoding latin charsets: 5, 6, 7, 8, 11,
and 12 are not.

Samuel