Bug#864955: live-boot: Non ASCII chars aren't displayed correctly

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 02:45:54AM +0200, Antoni Villalonga wrote:
>Package: live-boot
>Version: 1:20170112
>Severity: normal
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>Testing stretch live kde some non-asci chars are shown incorrectly.
>
>I've found that console-setup is configured iso-8859-15 instead of utf8.
>Switching to utf8 solves the problem.

That's a start, but things are rather more complicated. At the moment
the live setup is only setting locale. It works for display on the X
desktop, but:

 * as you've discovered it doesn't work on the console
 * it's not selecting an appropriate keyboard layout, either under X
   or on the console

To get all this *right* will be a major undertaking, I think. We
*could* simply add a default keyboard layout to the setup for each
language as well, but that's quite likely to be wrong for a lot of
users...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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