Package: base-config Version: 2.11 Severity: normal (this bug report does not necessarily belong to base-config....)
There was some report by M. Bauer which stated, besides other problems, that base-config output is messed up: ------------------------------------------------------ Dear list. I am trying new Debian installer (sid_d-i sarge-i386-netinst.iso from 5.2.2004). I choose installation in czech, everything goes ok, but labels in cfdisk are showing only to the first accented character and then disappear. After reboot (to second-stage), I don't see (czech) accented characters, but some other symbols (like percent, box, average mark, ...) instead of Å,ÄSome texts are not localized and are showing in english (creating user and mail setup). ------------------------------------------------------------- Miroslav Kure did some tests and concluded the following: > The accented charcater problem is more worrying. However, it may > probably be related to #226200 which was closed on Feb 5th by a > base-config upload. I did some test with today's 20040209 netinst sid iso (Base Config 2.08) and indeed, accented characters are broken (see the second screenshot at http://www.debian.cz/~kurem/shots/) -- black boxes shouldn't be there, all characters whith following "`" above them are wrong (we use only "'" (and wedge and circlet) :-) [ ... common boot messages] termwrap: locale-gen: Generating locales... termwrap: locale-gen: cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2... done termwrap: locale-gen: Generation complete info: Switching console charset mapping to ISO-8859-2 /usr/bin/charset: line 117: /dev/tty: Such device or address doesn't exist [base-config starts ... ] I suppose previous line should be the problem. (The error message was localized (see the first picture), so my reverse translation may not be acurate). I skimmed through the base-config, logged in and tried to get it working. Standard locale was set to POSIX. I suppose we need to load correct (iso-8859-2) font: # echo "set SCREEN_FONT=iso02.f16" >> /etc/console-tools/config # echo "set APP_CHARSET_MAP=iso02" >> /etc/console-tools/config # /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh restart Next, we would like to be able to _type_ accented characters (we can switch to the Czech layout by the Pause key): # echo "set convert-meta off" >> /etc/inputrc log in on the next console, run # export LANG=cs_CZ" #obvious locale stuff # echo -ne "\033(K" #so we can see accented chars. (blanks otherwise) # base-config #our testing program and voila! (see the last picture). I'm not quite sure if all these steps are necessary - this is "proven" setup which inherits itself for generations. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.1 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Versions of packages base-config depends on: ii adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups ii apt 0.5.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii aptitude 0.2.13-2 curses-based apt frontend ii bsdutils 1:2.12-6 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite ii console-data 2002.12.04dbs-28 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-47 Linux console and font utilities ii debconf 1.4.9 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.6.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii gettext-base 0.13.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities ii passwd 1:4.0.3-17 Change and administer password and -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
