This patch let localechooser not to try to print non-ascii characters on a cons25 terminal.
This should not affect d-i images not using cons25 terminal (e.g. linux-*). Cheers, Luca Favatella
Index: debian/changelog =================================================================== --- debian/changelog (revision 60241) +++ debian/changelog (working copy) @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ * Only check for validlocale if any locales need to be generated, as otherwise we won't have installed the locales package (closes: #538343). + [ Aurelien Jarno ] + * Don't try to print non-ascii characters on a cons25 terminal. + -- Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:04:09 +0100 localechooser (2.13) unstable; urgency=low Index: localechooser =================================================================== --- localechooser (revision 60241) +++ localechooser (working copy) @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ else level=1 fi - # ASCII only if we are on serial console or a dumb terminal + # ASCII only if we are on serial console, dumb or cons25 terminal # Both variables should already be set at init time - if [ "$TERM_TYPE" = "serial" ] || [ "$TERM" = "dumb" ]; then + if [ "$TERM_TYPE" = "serial" ] || [ "$TERM" = "dumb" ] || [ "$TERM" = "cons25" ] ; then level=0 fi ;;