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Bug#534587: debian-installer: Please set /etc/inittab to gracefully handle 8bit (UTF-8) environments



reassign 534587 finish-install
thanks

Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (debian@helgefjell.de):
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: l10n
> 
> When you enter umlauts or other 8bit characters in the login prompt,
> strange effects may appear. This can be avoided by setting a parameter
> in /etc/inittab. See #221290 for the grory details, especially message #229.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=221290#229
> 
> Please reassign if this file (i.e. its default version) is not handled by d-i but
> by some other program.

Sad that you didn't paste the duggestion from that bug report as.....I
could have loooked deeper while travelling (without net access).

Anyway, that very certainly belongs to finish-install where we doo all
such magic about inittab.

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