Bug#337986: localechooser: Wrong display for Belarusian in D-I 2nd stage

[Georgi Stanojevski <georgis@unet.com.mk>]

Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote:

>>>Macedonian;2;mk_MK.UTF-8;mk_MK.UTF-8;mk;MK;mk_MK:mk:en_GB:en;kbd=iso05.f16(utf8)
>>>what about:
>>>
>>>Macedonian;2;mk_MK.UTF-8;mk_MK.UTF-8;mk;MK;mk_MK:mk:en_GB:en;cyr=uni,16,utf-8,mk(ctrl_shift_toggle)
>>
>>The situation with Macedonian using the first line is actually less
>>worse than Belarusian:
>>
>>http://www.perrier.eu.org/~bubulle/macedonian_2nd.png
>>
>>Only missing borders just like it happens also for Greek.
>
> The "K" letters with acute accents over them look quite strange to me
> but I'm unsure whether this is actually something that's part of the
> macedonian alphabet...

I think that this was some kind of a problem with ncurses and utf8. I
have the same problem in mc, make menuconfig or dialog. But it's out off
my grasp to see where the problem is exactly, so I live with it. :)

> Capital letter is normal AFAIK, but small letter looks strange (it
> should look like capital letter but smaller AFAIK, but I am not
> Macedonian...).

Yes Eugeniy is right the two letters should look the same (only
different sizes).

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/040c/index.htm
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/045c/index.htm

But it's not really a big deal.

I don't really understand the core with consolefonts and the way that
the console draws the letters, but trying different fonts
here(slackware) both with utf8 and iso-8859-5 (cyr-sun16,
LatArCyrHeb-16, iso05.16) all gave me the same "faulty" result.

Trying to solve this would be nit-picking, althouhg, I'll try to contact
someone here more involed into this stuff and see why wasn't this
"problem" fixed by now. :)

It's defenetly not a d-i problem.

>>So, I won't probably change anything for Macedonian unless I'm
>>recommended to use the above "cyr=" line.
>
> It may work but NB.: line with cyr also sets keyboar layout, so user
> will not be able to change it (for second stage) with d-i.

I don't see a reason to change it either, everything seems OK.

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