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Authored by emaste on Jul 30 2025, 8:15 PM.
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There is no reason to change the font in order to select a keymap or a
font.

This was done in the syscons(4) era to ensure that a font with the
appropriate character set was used for kbdmap or vidfont's localized
menu, but vt is always UTF-8 and this is no longer necessary.

PR:             235565

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emaste created this revision.
emaste retitled this revision from vt: Remove FONT specification from INDEX.keymaps to vt: Remove FONT specification from INDEX files.
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Remove from INDEX.fonts as well

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 30 2025, 8:49 PM