> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:36:09AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: >> There have been discussions a few weeks ago about changes between >> Evguenyi, Anton and Nikolai....things have been commited and it seems >> that they weren't tested enough. > > I've got it. As far as I see that, the necessary changes for russian have > been in both base-config and languagechooser. The changes in > languagechooser has been half-deactivated, but not the changes in > base-config. Therefore, the tools installation in languagechooser is > deactivated (my change), but the language line in languagelist is > commented out (old value is active). Therefore, stage2 tries to use > console-cyrillic, which is not installed. > > Can languagechooser get an urgent update to the languagelist file?
If at all possible, I think this upload should revert change, making it install console-cyrillic again. As a quick look shows, code currently in base-config expects console-cyrillic, and that's thr Right Thing. The fact is that console-cyrillic is the only tool currently in debian that can properly set up cyrillic VGA console (not framebuffer but VGA console). The problem goes deep into VGA: koi8 uses character codes 0xC0 - oxFF. which do interfer with some VGA control settings. This causes vertical lines (in debconf dialogs, in mc, etc) to be non-continious. To overcome that, a complex mapping has to be defined, such that KOI codes don't actually go to VGA console. Console-cyrillic does that. Colsole-tools does not. Also, console-cyrillic gives a rich set of settings for cyrillic console. It's almoist a must-have on russian system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
