Bug 904252 - textmode shows boxes instead of ticks
Summary: textmode shows boxes instead of ticks
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 780862
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Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: 13.2
Hardware: x86-64 Linux
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Stanislav Brabec
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Reported: 2014-11-06 17:10 UTC by Olaf Hering
Modified: 2014-11-06 19:50 UTC (History)
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2014-11-06 17:10 UTC, Olaf Hering 		Details
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Description Olaf Hering 2014-11-06 17:10:24 UTC 
Created attachment 612680 [details]
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Since many many months a 'text mode only' installation shows just boxes instead of ticks when coreutils are called in verbose mode (-v).

I think whatever setting or package is missing should be installed per default to get sane output...
Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-11-06 18:52:33 UTC 
I can reproduce this. It is working in xterm, though the UTF8 is the same
touch x ; rm -v x | od -tx1
0000000 72 65 6d 6f 76 65 64 20 e2 80 98 78 e2 80 99 0a

and "ü" is working on text-console, so likely the console font
is only lacking those quotation characters

/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/ is part of kbd

The alternative would be to patch rm to not produce characters
that can not be properly shown in consoles
Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2014-11-06 19:50:56 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report.

This bug is already known. Even the way to fix is already known. The fix needs review of all fonts in the kbd package and their UNICODE maps. Nobody did it yet.

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