Ubuntu
console-setup package

Wrong console charset setup

Bug #121586 reported by Fabio Ornellas on 2007-06-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #133072: tty console doen't show characters with accent. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	console-setup (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

After installing 7.04, the console charset was all wrong. I am using pt_BR with UTF-8 (Ubuntu default for my language).

I solved the issue by running:

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

And letting everything default, but the font, from default fixed to VGA. With fixed, it works, but accented characters appear lighter (bright attribute?). With the VGA font all works fine for now.

I believe this is an installation issue, this should have been set up during installation, not by hand by me.

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steffen (steffen-sobiech) wrote on 2007-06-22:

I can confirm this, although I'm using de_DE.

Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas) on 2007-06-24

Changed in console-setup:
status:	New → Confirmed

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striscio (gianpaolo-racca) wrote on 2007-07-02:

Confirm this on 7.04 Feisty using it_IT.
I had to
dpkg-reconfigure console-setup and choose terminus font with UTF8 enconding

HTH,

gianpaolo

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Ugra Dániel (daniel.ugra-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-03-24:

Confirming on Kubuntu Hardy Beta with hu_HU. After clean install character set (not encoding) is 'Uni1' instead of 'Lat2' (for hu_HU of course). No bright colors (because Uni1 has 512 characters). Accented chars appear brighter or even as garbage. Reconfiguring console-setup and selecting Latin2 as character set solves the problem.