[systemd-devel] Unicode support in console after boot

[Andrei Borzenkov]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Does booting with plymouth.enable=0 change anything?