> > 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).
Oops... I didn't know about that. If so, probably visual effects I described should be considered minor. If things are this way, an (urgent) upload of languagechhoser shuold do what Nikolai said. Although I prefer to use console-cyrillic at least when it is usable (i.e. on AT keyboard). However, this ts not the thing that should be changed just before the release. > > 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. Last time I checked russian installation without console-cyrillic, I could see the effect. But that was several months ago. Probably specially-configured console-tools could do the appropriate re-mapping. In past times, there was 'koi2alt.trans' file there, and a command-line option to load it... Don't know how to hack that now. > > > 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. ... and left unconfigured (i.e. not setting up console at system boot) in most cases - corresponding debconf question is of priority medium, and defaults no "no" :(. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
