From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: When starting up the system with German as default locale I see the correct starup messages from the initscripts [ Ok ]. But after loading the germap keymap/keytable the brackets appear as german umlauts � and �. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use german as default locale 2. Look at the initscripts messages 3. Additional info:
Seems to happen only when using "Show messages" during the graphical boot process.
This is fixed by removing the keytable initscript.
This bug also affects the English start-up in the same way as described for German. In the case of Japanese, however, the output of the init scripts is entirely garbled after keytable starts. Indeed, as commented above, this bug only happens when "Show messages" is selected during the graphical boot process, and can be fixed by removing the keytable initscript or by inactivating it (chkconfig keytable off). It seems that on this bug entry has been closed on that note, however the keytable init scripts does start by default. Will this script be removed the next package, or is the bug going to be fixed?
If you update to the latest kbd package, the script should be disabled & removed.