On Tuesday 25 April 2006 01:32, Christian Perrier wrote: > > This is a know issue, probably caused by the fact that one of the > > tools used to set the username does not understand UTF-8. It is being > > looked into and will hopefully be resolved before the release of > > Etch. > > I'm not sure this should actually go to user-setup. Well, the problem manifests itself in user-setup, so I do think the bug report belongs there, if only as a reference for other users. > The main reported issue is the "brokeness" of what's displayed and > the bad handling of non ASCII characters. > > So, in short, a well known issue, which probably belongs to cdebconf > or newt In that case you should probably clone the bug, reassign to the proper package, "block" this BR with the cloned BR and work with their maintainers to get that issue solved. Someone needs to take responsibility for this issue, and I feel that the maintainer of user-setup is probably the best person to do that.
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