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> When running virtual ttys with fgetty, I cannot type any spanish
> accented vowel nor the "eñe" into the console shell.

What do you call 'console shell'? /bin/bash?

> I suspect it is a checkpassword.login problem.
> If I run a subshell (e.g. bash, rc, dash) or a readline dependant
> program (e.g. dvtm, mutt) it will succeed in printing out
> áéíóúñ. Otherwise, the shell will interpret the key as an escape
> secuence, and print "(arg: 1) _". The environment variables remain
> the same, though.

Do I understand correctly, that /bin/bash, which is execed directly by
fgetty behaves bad, but any it's child is okay?

> I don't have this problem in ttys started with standard login
> program (through mingetty, ngetty, getty). But, if I in voke
> checkpassword.login within this scenario, the problem reappears.

More information here, please. More detailed instruction how to reproduce
problem. script(1) would help.

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