Why once 'umlaut+black rectangle' and once '?+?'

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jul 16 08:27:33 UTC 2013


On 07/16/13 16:23, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 01:21:15AM +0930, Tim wrote:
>
>> Allegedly, on or about 15 July 2013, Alexander Volovics sent:
>>> Why does the "unicode bug" get expressed in 2 different ways
>>> on 2 different laptops:
>>>
>>> On a Dell Inspiron laptop as: "Schr?dinger?s Cat" (?+?)
>>> On a Lenovo Thinkpad as: "Schrödinger▊s Cat" (umlaut + black
>>> rectangle) 
>  
>> Different fonts?
> No, latarcyrheb-sun16 everywhere.
>

That isn't the font used by grub2 to display the menu, AFAIK. 

I believe grub2 uses pf2 formatted fonts and I believe defaults to using /boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2.

Would be nice if there were a pf2 font viewer.....


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