[solved] Console font not displaying characters properly

I have set up /etc/vconsole.conf to read as follows, as laid down in the unofficial beginners guide (or somewhere linked to from there)
KEYMAP=us
FONT=ter-114n
When I boot, I get the proper font (that's one of the terminus-font s). But if i do something like
% mv "hi" "hi"
the characters that SHOULD be apostrophes are in fact... The greek letter rho or something. I don't know. However, if I run "setterm ter-114n" it loads both the font correctly, as well as the mapping. I cannot for the life of me figure out where it's getting that correct mapping, or how I can just load it automatically.
Anybody know what else I need to do to have it set itself up?
Thanks
Last edited by scott_fakename (2013-06-20 15:22:41)

Maybe your problem is similar to this one, read the bug report.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35721

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