Bug#541291: console-setup: No special characters after update
retitle 541291 Some issues to document in FAQ
severity 541291 minor
thank you
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote:
>
> For `€' two additional characters are deleted. For the other symbols
> one additional character is deleted. And it adds up. Thus if I type
> '€öäü', 5 additional characters are deleted.
This is because in UTF-8 '€' is coded with 3 bytes and the non-ascii
letters with 2 bytes.
> It also makes it impossible for different users to use different locale
> settings. For instance as root I usually use POSIX, because all the
> files I touch as root are ASCII-only anyway. So far I never had a
> problem with that. The keyboard was set to a DE layout and the console
> font supported ISO-8859-15. That's all that was needed. Now this
> doesn't work anymore.
Console-setup permits user-level configuration. The system configuration
in /etc/default/console-setup can be overriden by ~/.console-setup. But
during the last few years, due to a change in the kernel configuration
the non-priviledged users are not allowed to change the keyboard layout.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote:
>
> Contrary to what I believed, I could have set LC_CTYPE to POSIX instead
> of ISO-8859-1 (small bug in .profile). With the
> combination of LC_CTYPE=POSIX and CHARMAP=ISO-8859-15 I can reproduce
> the weird behaviour.
>
> However, this very same combination worked before the upgrade. But I've
> also upgraded bash and libreadline. So the changed behaviour might very
> well be due to changes in those packages or a combination of changes in
> those and in console-setup.
The change in the behaviour is unrelated to console-setup.
> PS: I think you can close that bug.
/usr/share/doc/console-setup/FAQ.gz has not been updated for a while and
your bug contains several things that need to be documented there.
Anton Zinoviev
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