ANSI extended characters doesn't display correctly in console

Bug #1789168 reported by Marek Kolacek
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Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTC
Release: Release 18.04

Package: Linux console (tty)

Expected: The ANSI extended characters display correctly

Current state: The ANSI extended characters doesn't display correctly
https://theasciicode.com.ar/extended-ascii-code/graphic-character-low-density-dotted-ascii-code-176.html
The extended characters doesn't display on console correctly.
Correctly displayed are only characters DEC 191-197.
The others doesn't display well. Just diamonds instead.

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) reached end-of-standard-support on May 31, 2023.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported when using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

tags: added: bionic
Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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