Bug 33208

Summary:	Japanese kickstart install:Japanese characters got scrembled(mojibake)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	havill, mikem, ynakai
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Description Bill Huang 2001-03-26 08:12:00 UTC

(Originally reported by Hitachi)

Tested kickstart installation with wolverine(Japanese version),
Japanese characters got scrembled during installation.
Although installation can be finished,if disk partitioning should be
defined by users,
users cant read the information from screen.

Comment 1 Bill Huang 2001-03-26 11:23:45 UTC

confirmed with qa0324.0,Japanese can be displayed.

There are another problem:
After kickstart installation is started,there are two screens:"installer
language selection" and "keyboard selection".
Actually lang=ja_JP.eucJP and jp106 keyboard are set in ks.cfg.

Comment 2 Bill Huang 2001-03-26 13:29:52 UTC

sorry,I am wrong.Even qa0324.0 kickstart installation,Japanese cant be displayed
properly.
(Japanese characters got scrembled.)

(What made Japanese displayed properly was that CDROM was inserted after
installer was started.)

Comment 3 Matt Wilson 2001-03-27 16:49:56 UTC

This has always been the way kickstart worked (or failed to work) in Japanese.

Comment 4 Nakai 2001-03-30 07:08:42 UTC

This is kon2 problem rather than the translation, isn't it?

Comment 5 Matt Wilson 2001-03-30 07:11:25 UTC

the installer never changes into kon mode when doing kickstart installs.  I'm
afraid to change it now.

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-30 15:54:42 UTC

This will have to wait till the next release.

Comment 7 Michael A. McLean 2002-01-29 23:53:53 UTC

I'm seeing this bug in current (01/29/2002, re0129.0EE) trees.

All text kickstart installs are affected.  GUI kickstart installs appear correctly.

Comment 8 Matt Wilson 2002-03-12 21:35:38 UTC

The code re-org needed to fix this is better off left for Milan

Comment 9 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:27:16 UTC

Deferred to future release.

Comment 10 Michael Fulbright 2002-05-26 19:00:00 UTC

Fixing bug status- sorry for the email.

Comment 11 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-02 21:17:10 UTC

Should work in Phoebe

Comment 12 Mike McLean 2003-01-03 20:44:51 UTC

This bug is fixed, verified with ftp/http kickstart installs.