On Tuesday 22 August 2006 00:29, Frans Pop wrote: > > Note that this currently means that VT2 may get garbled input as that > > is not set to UTF-8, so the new challenge is how to set that > > dynamically when the user switches to VT2. It needs to be set > > dynamically as we don't know when init is run if the installer will > > use UTF-8 or not. Also, we do not know in the shell what the > > installer environment is set to. > > If anybody knows how to solve this new issue, I'd be much obliged. > I have checked that only the shell on VT2 from init is affected and > not shells that are started from within d-i (from the menu, rescue).
Google really helps :-)
The solution is to:
- add an /etc/profile that contains a check for UTF-8 and then does
echo -ne "\033%G"
to activate UTF-8 for the terminal
- change the line for VT2 in inittab to
vc/2::askfirst:-/bin/sh
to make the terminal get a login shell and thus get /etc/profile
sourced when the shell is started
I'll implement this later today/night.
Cheers,
FJP
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