Bug#234529: strings truncated

[Konstantinos Margaritis <markos@debian.gr>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 10:09, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:13:32PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis 
wrote:
> > Package: base-config
> > Version: 2.12
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: l10n
> >
> > When using locale el_GR.UTF-8, all the strings are truncated up
> > to a certain column. It doesn't matter whether I run this from
> > normal console, jfbterm or an X term, it's always the same. The
> > messages are uncomprehensible since a lot of information is
> > missing.
>
> I just added support for iso-8859-7 encoding in base-config CVS
> (termwrap). You should then be able to test 2nd stage in Greek by
> changing your 1st stage locale to el_GR (in
> /var/log/debian-installer/questions.dat).

I should not want that, rather to have UTF-8 encoding working 
properly.

> BTW I do not remember, is el_GR.UTF-8 the locale you want by
> default for Hellenic users, or was it set so to work around
> problems with iso-8859-7?

It's the default. Everyone's moving to utf-8 gradually and greek 
unicode support is better than iso so...

Konstantinos