Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
Tags: l10n d-i
Dear Maintainer,
the Debian graphical installer (at least in the Xfce and KDE Live CDs that I've
tried) has a severe internationalization problem.
My language is Hungarian ("magyar"). Although the installer asks for my
keyboard layout, this choice only affects the final installed system: the
installer doesn't instantly load the keymap as I would expect.
This is a problem because later in the installation I'm asked for my name but I
couldn't enter my name correctly, as the required accented letters are not
present on the English keyboard. Even more importantly, I almost locked myself
out of my account because I wanted to enter a password with accented letters,
but if I pressed the correct key on my keyboard, the installer would have
registered some other charater which is assigned to that key on the English
keyboard. So later I would have had a problem logging in, but I've hopefully
figured this out during the installation and chose instead a password that only
contained English characters.
Note: it _might_ be possible, that other keymaps work, and just my language is
broken, but I suppose this is the case with other layouts too.
For the above mentioned reasons I ask you to include this feature (hotloading
the keymap) into the installer.
Regards,
Tamás Tardos
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