Bug 932616

Summary: kbd: U+25CF not supported on text console
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: dimstar, sbrabec
Version: Current   
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Description Jan Engelhardt 2015-05-28 10:09:11 UTC 
# systemctl status basic.target
● basic.target - Basic System

The "status" command of systemctl outputs a BLACK CIRCLE (U+25CF). openSUSE's text console is configured to load lat9w-16.psfu or so by default for European installs, and this font does not have a mapping from U+25CF to glyph position 0x07 (the bullet point image).

(I expect most fonts in kbd don't.)

Therefore, running systemctl on the text console often leads to a replacement character (often a box with a question or something similar). This question box annoys dimstar, I would just live with it :-)
Comment 1 Stanislav Brabec 2015-05-28 14:28:03 UTC 
Thank for the bug.

Marking the bug as duplicate of bug 780862, however the letter reported is different.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 780862 ***