It happens to me as well in Spanish. I tried to type the í, to do copy- paste... but nothing worked.
In the end I found a workaround: type export LC_ALL=POSIX in the terminal and the English version will appear the next time you enter cfdisk. But the Spanish version (and the Finnish as well, as it seems) are unusable. -- cfdisk 2.12p finnish translation fails accepting user input https://launchpad.net/bugs/18633 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs