wrong default value for CODESET in /etc/default/console-setup

[Fejes Jozsef]

Binary package hint: console-setup

I just installed an Ubuntu 10.04.1 from the alternative CD. I live in Hungary, I have a Hungarian keyboard, this is what I selected in the installer. /etc/default/console-setup contained the line CODESET="Lat15", which can't display some characters like ő and ű. Lat2 works. This value should be locale or keyboard dependent.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It *is* locale-dependent. It's not clear to me why this didn't work for you, as the code in Ubuntu 10.04.1 already said:

    hu_*)
        default_codeset=Lat2

Did you definitely select Hungarian as your language as well as your keyboard? Otherwise I'm not sure what's wrong; this will require investigation.

[Fejes Jozsef (fejesjoco)]

I just installed ubuntu-10.04.2-alternate-i386.iso in VirtualBox. I selected English as my language. I selected Europe/Hungary as my location. I selected the Hungarian/Hungarian keyboard layout.

After install, I switched to the console, and instead of ő and ű, I saw diamond-shaped characters. /etc/default/locale contains LANG="en_US.UTF-8". /etc/default/console-setup contains CODESET="Lat15".

The only thing I want in English is the language of the operating system, everything else (location, number formats, keyboard layout, accented characters, so the locale stuff) I want in Hungarian. So the only place I selected English in the installer is the language, every other place I chose Hungarian.

[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Closing due to age.
If a similar bug appears in 15.04 (development) please open a new report.