retitle 541291 Some issues to document in FAQ severity 541291 minor thank you
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > > For `€' two additional characters are deleted. For the other symbols > one additional character is deleted. And it adds up. Thus if I type > '€öäü', 5 additional characters are deleted. This is because in UTF-8 '€' is coded with 3 bytes and the non-ascii letters with 2 bytes. > It also makes it impossible for different users to use different locale > settings. For instance as root I usually use POSIX, because all the > files I touch as root are ASCII-only anyway. So far I never had a > problem with that. The keyboard was set to a DE layout and the console > font supported ISO-8859-15. That's all that was needed. Now this > doesn't work anymore. Console-setup permits user-level configuration. The system configuration in /etc/default/console-setup can be overriden by ~/.console-setup. But during the last few years, due to a change in the kernel configuration the non-priviledged users are not allowed to change the keyboard layout. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Harald Braumann wrote: > > Contrary to what I believed, I could have set LC_CTYPE to POSIX instead > of ISO-8859-1 (small bug in .profile). With the > combination of LC_CTYPE=POSIX and CHARMAP=ISO-8859-15 I can reproduce > the weird behaviour. > > However, this very same combination worked before the upgrade. But I've > also upgraded bash and libreadline. So the changed behaviour might very > well be due to changes in those packages or a combination of changes in > those and in console-setup. The change in the behaviour is unrelated to console-setup. > PS: I think you can close that bug. /usr/share/doc/console-setup/FAQ.gz has not been updated for a while and your bug contains several things that need to be documented there. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
