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and subject line console-setup: The non breaking space has a bad symbol with
fr_FR charset
has caused the Debian Bug report #820213,
regarding console-setup: The non breaking space has a bad symbol with fr_FR
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820213: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820213
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: console-setup
Version: 1.123
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
In fr_FR.UTF-8 charset, Lat15 for console-setup or also guest charset,
console-setup change the non-breaking space in the boot message of systemd to
garbage character.
The first line of message on the boot screen says about that:
/dev/sda1: clean ...
that get in fr_FR:
/dev/sda1: propre ...
This first line works fine but with other partitions, it is displayed:
/dev/sda2 : propre ...
/dev/sda3 : propre ...
etc.
Here, no problem with the space and colon couple because it is a French norm.
When the stage of the change of the font choosen by console-setup occurs, it is
displayed as:
/dev/sda2€: propre ...
/dev/sda3€: propre ...
The € character instead of the non-breaking space may be replaced by another
strange character following another font applied by console-setup.
Expected results :
Whatever the font, a non-breaking space should be displayed in fr_FR before
this colon or at least a simple space.
The non-breaking space is better.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii console-setup-linux 1.123
ii debconf 1.5.56
ii keyboard-configuration 1.123
ii xkb-data 2.12-1
console-setup recommends no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii locales 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
Versions of packages keyboard-configuration depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.56
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-8+b1
Versions of packages console-setup-linux depends on:
ii kbd 1.15.5-2
ii keyboard-configuration 1.123
console-setup-linux suggests no packages.
Versions of packages console-setup is related to:
pn console-common <none>
pn console-data <none>
pn console-tools <none>
ii kbd 1.15.5-2
-- debconf information:
* console-setup/codeset47: Guess optimal character set
* keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap: fr(oss)
* console-setup/charmap47: UTF-8
* keyboard-configuration/optionscode: kpdl:commaoss
keyboard-configuration/ctrl_alt_bksp: false
console-setup/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_options: true
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_layout: true
* keyboard-configuration/layout:
* keyboard-configuration/layoutcode: fr
* console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8x16
console-setup/codesetcode: guess
console-setup/guess_font:
debian-installer/console-setup-udeb/title:
* keyboard-configuration/variant: Français - Français (variante)
* keyboard-configuration/store_defaults_in_debconf_db: true
console-setup/framebuffer_only:
* console-setup/fontface47: Choix automatique d'une police adaptée
keyboard-configuration/unsupported_layout: true
console-setup/fontsize: 8x16
* keyboard-configuration/modelcode: pc105
* keyboard-configuration/altgr: The default for the keyboard layout
* keyboard-configuration/toggle: No toggling
console-setup/use_system_font:
* keyboard-configuration/variantcode: oss
* keyboard-configuration/other:
* keyboard-configuration/model: PC générique 105 touches (intl)
* keyboard-configuration/unsupported_config_options: true
* keyboard-configuration/switch: No temporary switch
* keyboard-configuration/compose: No compose key
console-setup/fontsize-text47: 8x16
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
I think that this bug was fixed.
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Rpnpif
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