Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65922
Wrong font of initialization messages for non-latin1 languages
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:27:47 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: When non-latin language is selected for the system (For example, Russian: LANG=ru_RU.koi8r), then during the initialization BEFORE system font is set to the right one, ALL the system init. messages are displayed with international characters but with wrong font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RH 7.x linux choosing Russian language for the system 2. Boot the system Actual Results: Look at the broken initialization messages with wrong font. The language of messages is Russian, but russian font is not set yet, so all non-latin1 characters are shown as garbage. Expected Results: Right system font MUST be set BEFORE printing ANY international messages. Use only english messages before setting the right font or set the right font at the FIRST step, before any messages are printed. Additional info: This bug is inherited from older 7.x distributions. Really, this problem appeared just after RH decided to print init. messages in non-english languages.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. In current releases, we set the font *very* early, so this should be fixed.