[systemd-devel] Unicode support in console after boot

[Jan Synacek]

Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> writes:
> 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?

Yes, I'm trying this in somewhat newish rawhide, I believe plymouth is
on by default. I tried removing "rhgb" from the kernel command line, but
that didn't change anything.

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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat