Incorrect display of Russian language with the correct font #4772
Description
Which ISO version are you using?
2026.09.01
The installation log
describe the problem
Description of the issue
I installed the font Cyr-Sun16 and got incorrect display of Russian text. The same problem occurred when setting the same font in the settings archinstall. With other languages everything is fine, like Ukrainian.
Virtual machine config:
<domain type="kvm">
<name>my-arch-machine</name>
...
</devices>
</domain>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=my-arch-machine,debug-threads=on -object ...
Activity
h8d13 commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Could this be introduced by #4356 ? (I'm a bit confused at this PR) It seems to only set one font for ukrainian:
archinstall/archinstall/locales/languages.json
Line 172 in 7c52719
I'm assuming you selected Ukrainian in the languages menu ?
saivan4ick commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Oh, no, you understand, I just chose Ukrainian to continue working with archinstall, Because it's understandable to me, and I can use it to understand what I'm installing. But I just chose it as an example; I'd really like to see the Russian language correctly and without the messy encoding. Ukrainian is not connected in any way here; the problem is specifically with the Russian language and its encoding or incorrect display.
h8d13 commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Can you try edit
/etc/vconsole.conflineFONT=cyr-sun16it should work fine :)saivan4ick commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Hmm, okay, I'll try that when I'm free and back on the computer. Thanks in advance!
saivan4ick commentedon Sep 15, 2026
CelicaS commentedon Sep 23, 2026
Language glitches and garbled text can all be fixed by installing kmscon. I really wish archiso would include it by default, so archinstall could display all languages perfectly.
pacman -S kmscon
kmscon /dev/tty1
saivan4ick commentedon Sep 26, 2026
Hooray, I found a fix for the Russian language. Thank you and everyone for your help with this issue.
fix(locales): set console_font for Russian language