[systemd-devel] Unicode support in console after boot

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> currently, unicode characters are not correctly displayed in the
>>> console. After login, when I run /usr/bin/unicode_start, unicode works
>>> fine. I tried to create a service file that runs this script, linking
>>> tty to stdout and stderr, but that didn't work. Is there a way how to
>>> turn on unicode support in console after boot using a service file? Or
>>> any other type of unit? Or is this something that has to be patched in
>>> the source (logind perhaps?)?
>>
>> This is already done by systemd-vconsole-setup [1], but only if the
>> system locale is a UTF-8 one [2].
>>
>> [1]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/vconsole/vconsole-setup.c?h=a158dbf156ac#n70
>> [2]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/shared/util.c?h=a158dbf156ac#n5547
>
> Thank you. There seems to be something wrong with the
> systemd-vconsole-setup.service, it doesn't seem to be run correctly at
> boot. If restarted, I get the unicode support.
>

Do you use graphical splash screen (plymouth) by any chance?