Bug 68819

Summary:	German Umlaut characters not displayed correctly after install in console
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Olaf Schnapauff <olaf>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Olaf Schnapauff 2002-07-14 20:17:54 UTC

Description of Problem:

German Umlaut characters not displayed correctly after install in console
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible: install german as default language

Actual Results:
Console upon boot does not display umlauts, they are replaced
by garbage characters

Expected Results:
vd|VD\_ displayed corretly

Additional Information:
	
might be the font chosen for console is not supporting umlauts.

Comment 1 Olaf Schnapauff 2002-07-14 21:10:42 UTC

Checking revealed its not the font, that works fine.

Aparently e.g. ifup eth0 results in a 
Bestimmen der IP Informationen f<weird broken character instead on |>r Interface
eth0

Upon startup, several such broken messages appear, looking pretty unprofessional
at once.

(The whole localization is still _very_ rudimentary, you get a serious 
German-English mix all over, with occasional broken German, when switching
default to German).

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-07-15 01:57:34 UTC

vt1 or vt2->vt6?

Comment 3 Olaf Schnapauff 2002-07-15 06:13:44 UTC

all VTs, including 1. Its not  [Bug 68827] with unicode init on vt2-6. 

Olaf

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-12 21:59:56 UTC

I don't think this is an anaconda issue.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-12 22:54:02 UTC

This should be fixed with current initscripts and kbd. Please reopen if it's not.