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

[Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugeniy.meshcheryakov@googlemail.com>]

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> 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.
Exactly my point.

> 
> > 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.
The state now is that d-i is using UTF-8 for all languages. So non-UTF clients already have broken 
display, probably even for English with all those
pseudographical characters. I think it is safe to
assume that UTF-8 ssh client is available in 2012.
The UTF-8 transition was done > 6 years ago.
Another "clean" solution would be disable all 
languages except C. I do not think that this is
acceptable.

Regards,
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov