Bug#384740: installation-report: Some remarks on Russian support in d-i beta3

[Max Dmitrichenko <dmitrmax@rain.ifmo.ru>]

> User/password setup offers to create an ordinary user account. An attemp 
> to enter the real name in Russian in text mode installer failed: instead 
> of russian letters the text field is filled with sequences like "<C3><D8><D5>".

This happens because the loaded Russian keyboard layout (located in file
/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ru.kmap.gz on the initrd image) uses KOI8-R
encoding. And I have chosen the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale when installer prompted.

Obvious solution is to replace current keymap with UTF-8 one like it is
done for Ukrainian language. But that way another problem arise: what to
do with other locales (ru_RU.KOI8-R, ru_RU.CP-1251 and ru_RU) because
they won't have usable russian layout.

Does anybody know why all other Russian keymaps (for various encodings) from
console-data package are symlinks to the ru.kmap.gz on the installer initrd
image?

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  Max