Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 6788
Anaconda has problems displaying some characters
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
Two of the 22 Icelandic characters come out in anaconda as filled boxes. Those two characters are valid members of the esteemed ISO 8859-1 family. They are "~" and "p".
Ive also noticed this problem on the console itself, after installation. The problem seems to be that the font used on the console dosnt have those two characters (and therefore not fully ISO8859-1 compliant)
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I've been doing some digging on my own on this problem (use the source Luke) and I have come to the following conclusion. /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/default8x16.psf.gz is the culprit here. it is missing the two characters in question. Not knowing how to modify .psf fonts I cant fix the problem. Still, we can do the following: cp /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/iso01.f16.psf.gz /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/default8x16.psf.gz and be done with the problem in installed boxes. We still need to fix this in Anaconda during installs. As the maintainer of the Icelandic translations of anaconda and the rest of the tools I can show you this: ra@xo> grep -c p install/is.po 369 ra@xo> grep -c ~ install/is.po 147 Keep in mind that that is just the installer. More characters that appear as boxes in specs, authconfig, chkconfig and so forth. I consider this a very high priority bug to be fixed before 6.2 is released.
Did even more digging. It's not 4 characters that are mising, but 10. "~", "^", "p", "P", "}", "]", "A", "Z", "M" and "S"
Is this looking a little better in the 6.1.92 beta that we released? Please reopen this bug if you are still seeing problems in the beta.