loadfont(1M)

loadfont -- set character font on the 386 console using system locale

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/loadfont

Description

The loadfont command uses the pcfont(1M) command to load the system console fonts. loadfont determines the options to pcfont from the files in /etc/default as follows:

File Variable Value
cofont COFONT 8-bit language configuration file name
coterm MBCONSOLE ``yes'', for a multibyte console, to use the value of LANG
``no'' to use the value of COFONT
locale LANG system default locale 

 +-------+-----------+---------------------------+
 |File   | Variable  | Value                     |
 +-------+-----------+---------------------------+
 |cofont | COFONT    | 8-bit language            |
 |       |           | configuration file name   |
 +-------+-----------+---------------------------+
 |coterm | MBCONSOLE | ``yes'', for a multibyte  |
 |       |           | console,  to use the      |
 |       |           | value of LANG             |
 |       |           | ``no'' to use the value   |
 |       |           | of COFONT                 |
 +-------+-----------+---------------------------+
 |locale | LANG      | system default locale     |
 +-------+-----------+---------------------------+

See pcfont(1M) for details about the values of COFONT and LANG.

loadfont is normally only run from an init script.

Files


/etc/default/cofont

/etc/default/coterm

/etc/default/locale

References

cofont(4), coterm(4), locale(4), pcfont(1M)
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