Bug#760993: console-setup: CHARMAP no longer set properly

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:18:01PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> In /etc/default/console-setup I have:
> CHARMAP="ISO-8859-1"
> 
> However, my console acts like it's in UTF-8 mode.
> 
> If I restart the console-setup service it does get properly set,
> so I'm guessing something else is overriding it.

In order to be sure that that the culprit is not console-setup but other 
program, do this:

Open /bin/setupcon in a text editor and find the following block:

            elif [ "$do_verbose" ]; then
                case "$verbose" in
                    NONE)
                        report executing $cmd "$@".
                        $cmd "$@"
                        ;;
                    FORK)
                        # no arguments to suppress '\033%%@' and '\033%%G'
                        report executing $cmd.
                        $cmd "$@" &
                        ;;
                    *)
                        report executing $cmd "$@".
                        $cmd "$@" $verbose
                        ;;
                esac
            else
                case "$verbose" in
                    NONE)
                        report executing $cmd "$@".
                        $cmd "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
                        ;;
                    FORK)
                        # no arguments to suppress '\033%%@' and '\033%%G'
                        report executing $cmd.
                        $cmd "$@" &
                        ;;
                    *)
                        report executing $cmd "$@".
                        $cmd "$@"
                        ;;
                esac

Then remove the symbol '&' from both lines

                        $cmd "$@" &

Does the problem disappear if you do this?

Anton Zinoviev