Greek UTF-8 console problems
Bug #9487 reported by
Dimos Dimoulis
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
The installer configures the locale for greek language as el_GR.UTF-8 instead of
el_GR.ISO8859-7. The console is not prepared for this during 2nd part of installation
(base-config), messages are unreadable and installation cannot be completed.
Workaround: install with US locale, change it later.
Since you don't support UTF-8 yet, you should make sure that no language is installed
as UTF-8 by default.
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This is strange, because I tested this myself on all three architectures and
I've had explicit success reports for Greek:
<markos_> Kamion: congrats on Ubuntu, I'm getting very good comments from users
here, and Greek seems to be working out of the box :-)
Can you give me more details about your system? It's also not true that we don't
support UTF-8 yet, merely that we're still aware of some bugs in console
programs and so haven't yet chosen to make it the default for all languages.