Console displays local characters incorrectly

The same with Polish characters. It seems that the console displays two characters (not text or Polish characters - just two other ASCII symbols) when it has to display just one as UTF-8.

Hello,

     The same is true with french accentuated characters. I did an upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10. However I can also say that when you use dpkg-reconfigure console-setup everything is fine when you run the "setupcon" command. However, when you reboot the computer you are back to square one because you lose all your "console-setup" configuration. Is there a way to avoid that the kernel setup everything back when there is a reboot ?.

Thanks.

O.D.

hello,

     When I disabled usplash, the problem disappear. So, it looks like itis linked to this software.

Thanks.

O.D.

I have the same problem with german "Umlaute". I also noticed that I only have the problem with Kubuntu 6.10 with Ubuntu the I don't have it (there the console font looks different).

I had the same problem on feisty today.
After dpkg-reconfigure console-setup
when booting without usplash all was OK, but with usplash it was not.

This is what I found out about that:
(1) /etc/init.d/console-setup does nothing when usplash is running.
(2) /etc/init.d/usplash closes usplash and would runs /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh which sets fonts to, but is disabled when console-setup is installed.
(3) /etc/init.d/usplash does not run /etc/init.d/console-setup as it should (as I think)

So I changed in /etc/init.d/usplash :
        if type setupcon >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            CONSOLE_SCREEN=
to
        if type setupcon >/dev/null 2>&1; then
            CONSOLE_SCREEN='/etc/init.d/console-setup start'

and now it works here. :)

changing package from console-data to usplash

This may be a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bug/87031

Unfortunately my patch to /etc/init.d/usplash does not help in case of resume from disk (hibernate) where usplash breaks it again.

BTW
I use nvidia binary driver, which seems to prevent vesafb/nvidiafb from working. May this lead usplash to mess with the screen ? Additionally usplash complains about not being able to switch to 1280x1024 (which is my TFT) and uses 1024x786 instead. That's all pretty weird IMHO :-/

Script /etc/acpi/resume.d/66-console-setup.sh to fix it on resume.