Bug#496929: locales: The default locale only applies on one among the six consoles
reassign 496929 console-setup
thanks
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:41:25PM +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.7-13
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if it's a bug but I dont find any answer on google, forums,
> irc. So maybe it's a real problem not documented or a bug for 64bits
> (not often used). I hope the bug isn't on bash or readline, if it is,
> sorry I didn't know.
>
> By default I use fr_FR@euro. On tty1, I can type accents and read them.
> On X too. But on tty2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I can't type accents; they're only
> readable. If I run X on tty2, gedit saves everything in utf8 and I've to
> select iso-8859-15 by hand. Probably it's utf8 the locale by default.
>
> I get this for any user (former or new), although printenv displays
> fr_FR@euro..
>
You are using locale fr_FR@euro, it's just that you are unable to
display it. It is not the job of the locales package.
Reassigning the bug.
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