Bug#677931: installation-report: testing image does not boot on QNAP TS-212 (armel) / stable works
Eugeniy Meshcheryakov, le Tue 11 Sep 2012 13:09:04 +0200, a écrit :
> > 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.
Ah, sorry, I thought languagelevel 1 was ascii-only. Yes, the current
state is actually bogus, as you say, we should either go to assume
UTF-8, or only have English/C (which I thought was the current state,
like on serial consoles)
> > > 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.
By default, because it currently doesn't know better even in the ssh
case.
> So non-UTF clients already have broken display, probably even for
> English with all those pseudographical characters.
The d-i ssh server could accept the LANG variable from the client
> I think it is safe to assume that UTF-8 ssh client is available in
> 2012.
Not everybody have switched to it unfortunately (even if available).
We can however assume UTF-8 for now (thus raise languagelevel for the
ssh console, which is better than the current state anyway), and keep
as TODO (if anybody feels about implementing it) using LANG from the
client.
Samuel
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