languagechooser and console-tools (was Re: Bug#232071: base-config: Output messed up with ISO-8859-2 locales)
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 06:27:57PM +0100, Miroslav Kure wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:01:18AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> >
> > Miroslav, I just committed a fix for termwrap, could you please check if
> > it works as expected? I think so, but cannot read any ISO-8859-2 language.
>
> Great!
> base-config now displays proper iso8859-2 characters.
Good news.
> (But after base-config finishes, it displays several screens long mess
> which seems like a usage messages from consolechars -- likely there is
> some bad parameter somewhere).
>
> And of course, any messages *after* base-config (well, termwrap) are
> mangled again, but that's another story (I suppose console-tools need
> to setup iso-8859-2 font in /etc/console-data/config).
[Moving this discussion to debian-boot]
Absolutely, configuring console-tools when it supports the selected
locale is IMO the way to go. For this I am willing to add another
field to languagelist, like console_font(map), e.g. in your case
iso02.f16(iso02), /etc/console-tools/config would then be configured
with these values, and 2nd stage should work out of the box (and
will continue to work after base-config exits).
Of course, languages which need special terminal emulators are not
affected by this change.
Unless someone disagrees, I will add this field in languagelist and
patch termwrap accordingly.
Denis
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