Public bug reported:
This affects all Ubuntu CDs and installations after 14.10.
The VTs are not configured to show UTF-8 characters because of a wrong
CHARMAP value at /etc/default/console-setup (ISO-8859-15 instead of
UTF-8).
The cause most probably is that recent console-setup.postinst versions
create a different configuration file based on LANG:
# rm /etc/default/console-setup
# LANG=C apt-get install --reinstall console-setup
# grep CHARMAP /etc/default/console-setup
CHARMAP="ISO-8859-15"
While with C.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8 or whatever) it produces the correct CHARMAP:
# rm /etc/default/console-setup
# LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install --reinstall console-setup
# grep CHARMAP /etc/default/console-setup
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
I think this should be fixed in console-setup, but it's possible that
the live CD code may want to use LANG=C.UTF-8 in any case.
** Affects: console-setup (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1484101
Title:
Broken CHARMAP with LANG=C on postinst, affects all installations
after 14.10
Status in console-setup package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
This affects all Ubuntu CDs and installations after 14.10.
The VTs are not configured to show UTF-8 characters because of a wrong
CHARMAP value at /etc/default/console-setup (ISO-8859-15 instead of
UTF-8).
The cause most probably is that recent console-setup.postinst versions
create a different configuration file based on LANG:
# rm /etc/default/console-setup
# LANG=C apt-get install --reinstall console-setup
# grep CHARMAP /etc/default/console-setup
CHARMAP="ISO-8859-15"
While with C.UTF-8 (or en_US.UTF-8 or whatever) it produces the correct
CHARMAP:
# rm /etc/default/console-setup
# LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get install --reinstall console-setup
# grep CHARMAP /etc/default/console-setup
CHARMAP="UTF-8"
I think this should be fixed in console-setup, but it's possible that
the live CD code may want to use LANG=C.UTF-8 in any case.
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