Polish diacritics not working in Alt-Ctrl-Fx console

[nital]

After installing Ubuntu, the Polish language pack and setting keyboard to Polish, there is still no support for Polish fonts under Alt-Ctrl-Fx terminals. Polish diacritics appear there as grey boxes, regardless whether they are entered (for example alt-s (ś) gives you a grey box) or displayed from a manpage or whatever else.
This bug has been in Ubuntu ever since I started using it, i.e. 7.04. Reading manpages and translated to Polish programs when being forced to see the boxes everywhere isn't nice. There is a simple fix to it ( http://forum.ubuntu.pl/showthread.php?t=49457 (in Polish, however you can grasp the idea without knowing the language)), but it has two drawbacks:
1. After applying this fix, every Polish diacritic on the screen is displayed in bold (it's white, while the non-Polish letters are grey), which looks quite strange;
2. You have to spend about 2 minutes after every installation of Ubuntu to fix it ;)

[Uwe Geuder (ubuntulp-ugeuder)]

I understand you report a different problem here, that the characters are missing in the first place.

But could you possibly also be affected by this problem that non-ASCII characters get corrupted? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/355057

[Norm Pierce (npierce-at2a)]

nital wrote on 2008-11-29:

"1. After applying this fix, every Polish diacritic on the screen is displayed in bold (it's white, while the non-Polish letters are grey), which looks quite strange;"

That sounds like LP:392795.