Bad encodign for generated /etc/passwd
Bug #32069 reported by
Josué Alcalde González
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| debian-installer |
Invalid
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
| user-setup (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu instalation asked for the real name of the user.
If you try to use special characters (é, ç, ñ, ü ...), they don't appear, but strange character <A> or something similar appears.
This is a bug, but the real problem is that /etc/passwd will not be created using UTF8 but ISO-8859-X encoding.
This breaks some utilities like users-admin or about-me.
- users-admin doesn't work and fails silently
- about-me doesn't show the user name
A solution is use gedit to save the file using UTF-8 encoding.
Revision history for this message
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in debian-installer: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
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