Re: Bug#617990: debian-installer: keyboard detection fails and no config option is offered
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
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> And console-setup doesn't (yet) support keyboard layout on kfreebsd.
> Cc-ing debian-bsd and reassigning to console-setup for now (I don't know
> what the BSD plan is for keyboard layout support).
The support for FreeBSD in console-setup is almost ready. I suppose I
will be able to add support for FreeBSD in console-setup-mini (the main
difficulty being the need to support non-UTF-8 encodings there) and if I
am succesful this means the udebs will support FreeBSD too. However,
there are some things that kFreeBSD and d-i people have to decide.
In my test installation of kFreeBSD I am unable to enter any non-ASCII
symbols. I suppose this is because of the attempt to have UTF-8 on the
console. I failed to find in Internet anything useful about UTF-8 on
the console except that in one Russian forum some people reported that
UTF-8 is supported only for ASCII symbols. If this is true then perhaps
it will be rediculous to use UTF-8 instead of some normal 8-bit
encoding. The bad thing is that I don't know how to switch the console
of kFreeBSD back to a non-Unicode mode.
I tested console-setup on a normal FreeBSD installation (version 8.2)
and all 8-bit encodings work there. So the problem is specific for
Debian, not for FreeBSD.
>From all I can see FreeBSD is not going to support UTF-8 anytime soon.
Even if the problem is fixed somehow in the kernel, the console
utilities of FreeBSD (kbdcontrol and vidcontrol) will require a
significant changes before they can support >256 codes.
For the installer this means that it has to work in a non-Unicode
environment. So I'd like to ask - is this possible or UTF-8 is
hardcoded? Does cdebconf support internationalizatin with 8-bit
encodings? If it is difficult to support 8-bit encodings then what are
the plans for kFreeBSD?
Anton Zinoviev
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