This is kind of related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182562 . It's basically another issue when you do this: inst.lang=ru_RU.UTF-8 inst.text mkolman did a great job of solving the problem where that results in an interface you can't read (because an appropriate console font isn't loaded so none of the translated characters render properly). However, you still can't *type* anything in the chosen language, because we don't attempt to load a correct console keyboard layout - which would be 'ru' in this case. AFAICT we just always have 'us' as the console layout. This is kind of a big problem because the 'yes/no' prompts are translated and expect you to be able to type Да or нет, which you can't do if you don't have the 'ru' layout loaded. There's some code in pyanaconda/keyboard.py for console keymap loading - _try_to_load_keymap() - and I'm not sure *exactly* when that gets hit, but it definitely doesn't seem to happen when you just run a text install in Russian with the parameters shown above. Note: this also affects EL 7, so it would be good to fix it there too.
Note for users struggling with this: you can work around it with kernel parameter 'vconsole.keymap'. To do a Russian text install with current EL 7 images, this seems to be the ticket: inst.lang=ru_RU.UTF-8 inst.text vconsole.keymap=ru vconsole.font=UniCyr_8x16 or instead of UniCyr_8x16 you can use latarcyrheb-sun16 , whichever you prefer (the vconsole.font parameter works around #1182562, until we have a new EL 7 release with the fix for that included).
> To do a Russian text install with current EL 7 images, this seems to be the ticket: > inst.lang=ru_RU.UTF-8 inst.text vconsole.keymap=ru vconsole.font=UniCyr_8x16 Also in that case 'r'-key (refresh function) does not work correctly. 'q', 'c' and 'b' work fine. But 'r' - does not refresh the screen -> it looks like just hitting Return key.
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I don't believe anything was done to fix this, and a check of the localization.py git log doesn't show anything.
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