• Ingo Brueckl's avatar
    console ASCII glyph 1:1 mapping · 1c55f187
    Ingo Brueckl authored
    For the console, there is a 1:1 mapping of glyphs which cannot be found
    in the current font.  This seems to be meant as a kind of 'emergency
    fallback' for fonts without unicode mapping which otherwise would
    display nothing readable on the screen.
    
    At the moment it affects all chars for which no substitution character
    is defined.  In particular this means that for all chars (>= 128) where
    there is no iso88591-1/unicode character (e.g.  control character area)
    you'll get the very strange 1:1 mapping of the (cp437) graphics card
    glyphs.
    
    I'm pretty sure that the 1:1 mapping should only affect strict ASCII
    code characters, i.e.  chars < 128.
    
    The patch limits the mapping as it probably was meant anyway.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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