Re: Working UTF-8 support with newt frontend?

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

I worked on this yesterday, and discovered that the UTF-8 characters
will be properly displayed if d-i/build/graphic.utf is printed in the
console.

I also discovered that whiptail also got the same problem.  Check out
<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/187704> for the bug report and a test
script.  I belive the problem is in slang, failing to convert the
linux termcap values for linedrawing into UTF-8.

I hope the newt maintainer know more and will reply quickly. :)