Bug#350275: [i18n] Hex codes instead of letters in d-i prompts

2006-01-28 Thread Miroslav Kure
Package: cdebconf Hi, when trying d-i daily installations in Czech, I can't enter accented (iso-8859-2) characters into input boxes in d-i anymore. This happens since the switch of d-i to unicode. Instead of e.g. e with caron it displays EC, which is hex code for this letter in iso-8859-2.

Bug#350275: [i18n] Hex codes instead of letters in d-i prompts

2006-01-28 Thread Christian Perrier
The question of course is, if there is any d-i input, which requires other characters than ACSII. And also if it will help our users that they could write some accented characters, but not the others (which Well, in d-i itself, the most important thing that comes to my mind here is the

Bug#350275: [i18n] Hex codes instead of letters in d-i prompts

2006-01-28 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 05:33:34PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Well, in d-i itself, the most important thing that comes to my mind here is the created user real name. user-setup first tries to call adduser, which uses chfn to change the GECOS field. Problem with chfn is, that it checks