Re: russian keyboard in d-i

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Nikita V. Youshchenko]
> But it I set LANG=C, I get something similar to what was in d-i: no
> characters are displayed while typing. To be more special: it I
> start typing in latin more, characxters are displayed. But if I
> switch keyboard to russian, no more characters are displayed,
> evenafter keyboard is switched back. However, as whiptail stdout
> shows, in fact chars ARE being input...

d-i is using locale C.UTF-8, and it might be a problem with this
locale.  This locale is part of the rootskel package.

I'm not sure if the problem should be fixed in the locale, newt,
slang, or somewhere else.