** Summary changed:

- Keyboard layout encoding problem (????) during install
+ Corrupted layout/variant list on Step 3 in installer

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: ubiquity
  
- During install of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta1, 
- 1. I selected the Greek language. The same problem appears with Russian and 
any script that has translated 'xkeyboard-config' to a non-ASCII language.
- 2. At the keyboard layout page, the translated strings of xkeyboard-config 
appear as ????????????.
+ SUMMARY:  While installing Ubuntu, on Step 3 we can choose a keyboard layout. 
+ The layout names are localised by the package xkeyboard-config). 
+ If on Step 1 we chose a language such as Russian, Greek, French, 
+ then those layout names on Step 3 appear as in the screenshots (UTF-8 text 
shown as ??????).
  
- This is an encoding issue.
+ HOW TO REPRODUCE:
+ 1. Get either Ubuntu 10.04 Beta1 or the daily live ISO (tried 
lucid-desktop-i386.iso, 25-Mar-2010).
+ 2. Start the LiveCD and go into the installer.
+ 3. On Step 1, select the Greek language (Russian, etc work as well). 
+ Any language that translated xkeyboard-config and the script has characters 
other than US ASCII).
+ See http://translationproject.org/domain/xkeyboard-config.html for available 
languages.
+ 4. On Step 3, notice the layout names. You may select Custom and go through 
the layout and variant lists.
+ 5. Instead of showing UTF-8 text, ubiquity read the names as if the encoding 
was US ASCII (7-bit), thus the ? character appears.
  
- I do not know where the installer finds the Greek localisation messages for 
xkeyboard-config.
- Something happens in the Python code that messed up the encoding.
- 
- In addition, in one of the screenshots below it shows that layout list
- gets corrupted. The layout list includes system directories.
+ In addition, one of the screenshots below shows that layout list gets
+ corrupted with system directories names.

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Corrupted layout/variant list on Step 3 in installer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/542310
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