Bug#238544: cannot enter non-ascii symbols

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 04:25:09PM +0200, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:
[...]
> >I think the same is true to all non-ASCII symbols.  d-i works in
> >unicode mode and the existing keyboard definitions are not for utf.
> 
> I have also tested debian-installer with ua-utf.kmap instead of ua.kmap.
> It works, but displays extra spaces. The same happens with whiptail, so 
> I filled bug against newt package (#238873).
> 
> So may be debian-installer must use UTF-8 keymaps (such as ua-utf.kmap) 
> instead of default ones (such as ua.kmap)?

The languagelist file sets the default locale used for 2nd stage.
It should also contain informations to provide a working console,
ie. keymap and font, and termwrap could then configure the console
before running base-config.

Denis