Re: Second stage console problem

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:24:22AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> Another idea was to always run base-config in an UTF-8 terminal, and
> always install an UTF-8 capable framebuffer terminal.  This way, we
> use the same system for all languages, and it is less likely that the
> lesser used configurations contain errors.

Please take into account that there are lots of systems without
framebuffer, so the install takes place on a serial console which at
most can display iso-8859-1, some of them even only US-ASCII, so you
cannot assume you have an UTF-8-capable terminal available.

Regards,
Karsten
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