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Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works



Eugeniy Meshcheryakov, le Tue 11 Sep 2012 11:03:59 +0200, a écrit :
> Well, those pure ascii languages still use UTF-8.
> Look at French for example.

French is not a pure ascii language, precisely.

> I was using UTF-8 locale and everything was looking correctly.

Because you happened to use a UTF-8 locale. If you connect from a latin1
terminal, accents will go wrong.

> I think many languages in the list will not be shown correctly if one
> uses ssh on a latin1 console.

That's precisely the problem and the reason why we can't assume
non-ascii languages will render correctly.

Samuel


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