Re: Second stage console problem

[Miroslav Kure <kurem@upcase.inf.upol.cz>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 05:05:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > How do you think about following flowchart, Joey?
> > 
> >           n
> > check tty -> serial. 2nd stage as current LANG (*1)
> >   | y
> >   v           y
> > check fb0(*2) -> run bogl-term as LANG(*3)
> >   | n
> >   v                                     y
> > acceptable LANG without bogl-bterm?(*4) -> 2nd stage as LANG
> >   | n
> >   v
> > cancel LANG (use English)
> >   |
> >   v
> > 2nd stage
> > 
> > *1: If you want to install in serial console/non-FB machine, you can
> >     use only English installer, it means LANG of 2nd stage is always
> >     English (C).
> > *2: Current termwrap looks don't implement yet.
> > *3: Current termwrap looks don't implement yet.
> > *4: Current termwrap looks implement partly?  I think this needs
> >     various people's help.
> 
> Yep, that sounds right.

Yet there is the issue with latin-* languages, who don't need
special terminal, but only need to set correct font in the
console-tools package.
E.g. accented characters in iso-8859-2 (Czech, Slovak, maybe
others) won't display correctly until you set lat2 console font,
which makes base-config almost unreadable.

Regards,
Miroslav Kure