Bug#546640: console-setup: "Lat15" name is confounding

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.44
Severity: normal

Hello,

The "Lat15" name is confounding: it could suggest that a latin15
charsets exists while it doesn't, and sounds similar to iso-8859-15,
which it does indeed implement, but not only. The description itself is
also not complete:

# Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages

It's not only latin1 and latin5, but also latin9, mandatory for the euro
symbol. Maybe just calling it Lat159 and adding latin9 to the list above
would solve the issue.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.28-1     Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
ii  xkb-data                      1.6-1      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  kbd                           1.15-4     Linux console font and keytable ut

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.9-25     GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  locales-all [locales]         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Precompiled locale 
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: France
  console-setup/unsupported_options: true
  console-setup/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
  console-setup/modelcode: geniuskb19e
  console-setup/use_system_font:
  console-setup/fontsize: 8
* console-setup/unsupported_layout: true
  console-setup/layoutcode: fr,brai
  debian-installer/console-setup/title:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
  console-setup/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and Turkic languages
  console-setup/toggle: Alt+Caps Lock
* console-setup/fontface: VGA
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 8
  console-setup/compose: Right Logo key
  debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
  console-setup/other:
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/unsupported_config_layout: true
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
* console-setup/optionscode: grp:alt_caps_toggle,compose:rwin,nbsp:level3n
  console-setup/unsupported_config_options: true
* console-setup/layout: France
  console-setup/variantcode: oss,
* console-setup/model: Genius KB-19e NB
  console-setup/fontsize-fb: 8

-- 
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@fnac.net>
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