[systemd-devel] Unicode support in console after boot

[Jan Synacek]

Michal Sekletar <msekleta at redhat.com> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Jan Synacek 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?)?
>
> Please try editing /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-vconsole-setup.service and
> remove RemainAfterExit=yes, then regenerate your initramfs image by running
> dracut command. Add back RemainAfterExit=yes to service file. Reboot.

Yep, this helped. Could you please explain why? Also, I believe this
should be fixed in all Fedora versions.

> Michal
>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> -- 
>> Jan Synacek
>> Software Engineer, Red Hat
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Jan Synacek
Software Engineer, Red Hat