Bug#259150: Switches to ISO-8859-1 at the end of base-config on Russian-installed system

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Subject: Bug#259150: Switches to ISO-8859-1 at the end of base-config on Russian-installed system
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:51:09 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 20040713075109.GA15153@saruman.uio.no>
Reply-to: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 259150@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20040713071339.C389523291@cc-mykerinos.onera>
References: <[🔎] 20040713071339.C389523291@cc-mykerinos.onera>

merge 250789 259150
thanks

[Christian Perrier]
> When finishing base-config on a Russian installed system (ru_RU.KOI-8R
> locale), the terminal is switched to ISO-8859-1 at the end of the
> installation. This make cyrillic output garbled.

This is the same as bug #250789.  The problem is that I do not know
any way to extract the current terminal charset from the console.
Because of this, the "undo" for termwrap is to set the charset to
ISO-8859-1, while it should set the charset to the one used before
termwrap changed it.  :)

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