Bug#658020: console-setup: Upon installation console-setup sets CODESET to "Lat15", but it should be "guess"
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.75
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Background info:
I have had the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf for months, if not years:
option "XkbRules" "xorg"
option "XkbModel" "pc105"
option "XkbLayout" "us,cz(qwerty)"
option "XKbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:switch,grp_led:scroll"
Now I just did this:
# apt-get purge keyboard-configuration
# apt-get install keyboard-configuration
Afterwards, the first thing I noticed was that the settings from
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
did not get transferred into /etc/default/keyboard. But that's not
directly relevant
to this bug. I filled in those settings by hand.
Then I did:
# invoke-rc.d console-setup restart
and found that some of the Czech characters did not display correctly. This was
due to CODESET being set to "Lat15" in /etc/default/console-setup. When I
changed this to "guess" and restarted console-setup again, the characters
displayed correctly.
So, the question is: why isn't CODESET set to "guess" by default? From my
vantage point, it's a bug, because "guess" guesses the desired encoding using
the system command "locale" (which works well in my case).
Thanks for your consideration,
Nathan Cutler
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.75
ii debconf 1.5.41
ii keyboard-configuration 1.75
ii xkb-data 2.3-2
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.13-24
ii lsb-base 3.2-28
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.41
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-13.13
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-7+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.3-7
ii keyboard-configuration 1.75
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
ii console-common <none>
ii console-data <none>
ii console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.3-7
-- debconf information:
console-setup/codeset47: # Latin1 and Latin5 - western Europe and
Turkic languages
keyboard-configuration/layout:
keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: us
keyboard-configuration/variant: USA
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
keyboard-configuration/variantcode:
console-setup/guess_font:
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/other:
keyboard-configuration/optionscode:
console-setup/use_system_font:
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
console-setup/fontface47: Fixed
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
console-setup/codesetcode: Lat15
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
keyboard-configuration/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: us
console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
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