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Bug#253198: installation report



[Should be merged with #250789 ?]

* Jan Kuznik [2004-06-07 22:30:38+0200]
> Base config should honour locale settings. The console should be configured
> to display the codepage requested by the language selected else the 
> fresh system displays mangled characters in many programs notably 'dselect'. 

Indeed, base-config honors the locale setting.  By "fresh system", did 
you mean the newly installed system, that is, the situation after all 
the second-stage installation finished?  If this is the case, please 
note that there are two bugs filed which report the post-installation 
console problems: #250376 and #250789.  Bug #250376 has just been closed 
with the new release of languagechooser and the other is still waiting 
for a proper solution.

In the second stage, termwrap runs the base-config, and following is the 
console setting for your language, which the termwrap uses upon 
invocation:

	ISO-8859-2)
		# Load ISO-8859-2 charset mapping into console
		try_load_charset "$ENCODING" iso02 iso02.f16

So, there shouldn't be any problem in the second-stage installation (the 
base-config stage, I mean).  But as reported by #250789, termwrap 
reverts to iso-1 on termination which puts your console in a bad state.  
On the other hand, you should be fine after rebooting (which IMO, 
shouln't be need), assuming that the fix of #250376 is applied, which is 
not case for the iso you used.  (We must wait the new languagechooser to 
include in test isos.)

> I suggest Debian Installer installs the package 'fonty' and configures it
> accordingly if the selected language implies coding other than 8859-1.

No need for fonty.  It just does the same thing quoted above.  But when
I look at the Czech entry in languagelist, I see that the console font 
for your language is not 'iso02.f16' which would be set by fonty:

	Czech;cs_CZ;cs_CZ;cs;CZ;cs_CZ:cs:en_GB:en;kbd=lat2-sun16(iso02)

So I suggest to apply the attached patch for Czech, which will do the 
same setting as fonty .  By the way, Christian, what about to substitute 
all those 'lat*-sun16' fonts with the corresponding 'iso*-f16' fonts 
(just like the 'iso08.f16' for Hebrew).  I can prepare a cumulative 
patch which adresses all the related languages.

-- 
roktas
--- languagelist.orig	2004-06-08 00:59:42.000000000 +0300
+++ languagelist	2004-06-08 01:00:11.000000000 +0300
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 Chinese (Simplified);zh;zh_CN;zh;;zh_CN:zh:en_US:en
 Chinese (Traditional);zh;zh_TW;zh;;zh_TW:zh:en_US:en
 #X Croatian;hr_HR;hr;HR;;kbd=lat2-sun16(iso02)
-Czech;cs_CZ;cs_CZ;cs;CZ;cs_CZ:cs:en_GB:en;kbd=lat2-sun16(iso02)
+Czech;cs_CZ;cs_CZ;cs;CZ;cs_CZ:cs:en_GB:en;kbd=iso02.f16(iso02)
 Danish;da_DK;da_DK;da;DK;da_DK:da:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)
 Dutch;nl;nl_NL;nl;;nl:en_GB:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)
 English;en;en_US;en;;en_GB:en_US:en;kbd=lat0-sun16(iso15)

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