08.10.2004 Ð 15:52 +0400 Nikita V. Youshchenko ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ: > > > > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:36:09AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > >> There have been discussions a few weeks ago about changes between > >> Evguenyi, Anton and Nikolai....things have been commited and it seems > >> that they weren't tested enough. > > > > I've got it. As far as I see that, the necessary changes for russian have > > been in both base-config and languagechooser. The changes in > > languagechooser has been half-deactivated, but not the changes in > > base-config. Therefore, the tools installation in languagechooser is > > deactivated (my change), but the language line in languagelist is > > commented out (old value is active). Therefore, stage2 tries to use > > console-cyrillic, which is not installed. > > > > Can languagechooser get an urgent update to the languagelist file? > > If at all possible, I think this upload should revert change, making it > install console-cyrillic again. As a quick look shows, code currently in > base-config expects console-cyrillic, and that's thr Right Thing. > It may be Right Thing only for machines with AT keyboards. On machines with other keyboards console-cyrillic will make keyboard unusable (bug #271308).
> The fact is that console-cyrillic is the only tool currently in debian that > can properly set up cyrillic VGA console (not framebuffer but VGA console). > The problem goes deep into VGA: koi8 uses character codes 0xC0 - oxFF. > which do interfer with some VGA control settings. This causes vertical > lines (in debconf dialogs, in mc, etc) to be non-continious. To overcome > that, a complex mapping has to be defined, such that KOI codes don't > actually go to VGA console. Console-cyrillic does that. Colsole-tools does > not. > I tried installing Debian in Ukrainian using font ruscii_8x16 used by termwrap for Russian and Bulgarian (version in unstable, there is a patch for Ukrainian but it was not applied, I changed fort manually). I see no described deffects. > Also, console-cyrillic gives a rich set of settings for cyrillic console. > It's almoist a must-have on russian system. > It will be instaled during second stage for all supported Cyrillic languages. -- Eugeniy Meshcheryakov Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Information and Computing Centre http://icc.univ.kiev.ua
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