NetBSD Problem Report #40506

From gson@gson.org  Wed Jan 28 15:59:54 2009
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From: gson@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson)
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Subject: Sysinst drops international characters on i386 console
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>Number:         40506
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       Sysinst drops international characters on i386 console
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 28 16:00:01 +0000 2009
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jan 28 16:39:41 +0000 2009
>Last-Modified:  Mon Feb 09 13:40:02 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Andreas Gustafsson
>Release:        releng daily snapshot of HEAD, 200901240002Z
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

When booting -current install media on an i386 PC, either virtual
(qemu) or physical, using the video console, sysinst attempts to
display some internactional characters, such as a "c" with cedilla in
"francais", but ends up dropping those characters altogether.  This
leaves the texts hard to read, and it causes subsequent line-drawing
characters to be shown in the wrong column, messing up the borders
around the selection menu.  A screenshot can be seen at

   http://www.gson.org/netbsd/bugs/sysinst-intl/screenshot.png

Although this is a cosmetic issue, it does affect the very first
screen NetBSD displays to a user attempting to install it, which
creates a rather bad first impression.  

>How-To-Repeat:

An easy way is using qemu (though I have verified that the bug also
affects physical hardware):

   ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200901240002Z/iso/i386cd.iso
   qemu-img create wd0.img 384M
   qemu -hda wd0.img -cdrom i386cd.iso -boot d

>Fix:

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Martin Husemann <martin@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/40506 CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:31:49 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	martin
 Date:		Wed Jan 28 16:31:49 UTC 2009

 Modified Files:
 	src/distrib/utils/sysinst: msg.mi.de msg.mi.es msg.mi.fr msg.mi.pl

 Log Message:
 PR install/40506: do not display international characters before we have
 selected a proper locale.


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.46 -r1.47 src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.de
 cvs rdiff -r1.23 -r1.24 src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.es
 cvs rdiff -r1.103 -r1.104 src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.fr
 cvs rdiff -r1.62 -r1.63 src/distrib/utils/sysinst/msg.mi.pl

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:39:41 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Fixed, thanks!


From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: martin@NetBSD.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	Andreas Gustafsson <gson@gson.org>
Subject: Re: install/40506 (Sysinst drops international characters on i386
	console)
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:41:27 +0000

 On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:39:42PM +0000, martin@NetBSD.org wrote:
  > Synopsis: Sysinst drops international characters on i386 console
  > 
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  > State-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
  > State-Changed-When: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:39:41 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > Fixed, thanks!

 Does this need a pullup to -5?

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: martin@NetBSD.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,
	gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	Andreas Gustafsson <gson@gson.org>
Subject: Re: install/40506 (Sysinst drops international characters on i386
	console)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:36:07 +0000

 On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:41:27PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
  > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:39:42PM +0000, martin@NetBSD.org wrote:
  >  > Synopsis: Sysinst drops international characters on i386 console
  >  > 
  >  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  >  > State-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
  >  > State-Changed-When: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:39:41 +0000
  >  > State-Changed-Why:
  >  > Fixed, thanks!
  > 
  > Does this need a pullup to -5?

 Conclusion: no.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

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