Bug#350275: [i18n] Hex codes instead of letters in d-i prompts
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 05:33:34PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
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> Well, in d-i itself, the most important thing that comes to my mind
> here is the created user real name.
user-setup first tries to call adduser, which uses chfn to change the
GECOS field. Problem with chfn is, that it checks for reasonable
chracters on a byte-by-byte basis, which of course does not work in
UTF-8 environment, so right now it won't work even if d-i was fixed.
(Bugreport already sent to the shadow author.)
> And, when d-i installs packages from tasksel, we have merely any
> package which inputs strings in its debconf screens.
The questions usually ask for some hostname, port, login, password,
dbname or path and in general should not require input of accented
characters, but users are sometimes quite creative.
Luckily most of the other questions are boolean / multiselect.
It might not seem so from the above, but I'm not against the fix :-)
I'm just trying to map the danger of this bug.
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Miroslav Kure
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