Created attachment 1728 [details]
faulty rescue

Created attachment 1729 [details]
text installer

Confirming this bug is present on the Beta 2 pre-release i586 dvd iso.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

What's strange is that it now affects stage1 which uses its own copy of slang and only link with external libz.a libldetect.a libkmod.a libpci.a & liblzma.a, so nothing that should affect its output...
I wonder what happens ?????

As noted previously, looks like a charset problem

â (U+2500) is C4 in PC437/PC850 but does not exist in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15
where C4 is Ã


It's reproducible with drakboot with TERM=linux when
locale is not UTF-8, but not with TERM=screen:

TERM     | UTF-8 | no-UTF-8
---------+--------------
linux[1] |   OK  |  BUG
screen   |   OK  |  OK

[1] like in the installer

As already stated, since it also affects stage1 (which cames with its own slang+newt), it may some change in the build environment.

how easy is it to set the locales to UTF-8?

Created attachment 1804 [details]
set TERM to "screen" instead of "linux"

I won't try to debug ncurses further and I think I'll just go with that patch.
"screen" works better than "linux-vt" that I tested too

The only remaining issue is that on exiting rescue-gui, the terminal is set to TERM=linux,
I'ven't tried the tree/etc/rc.sysinit modification yet

using the old boot.iso didn't work? do i need to use a new iso for this patch to work?

You need to:
1) rebuild drakx-installer-binaries with that patch (actually part of it: anything touching mdkstage1)
2) install it
3) rebuild drakx-installer-images with part of the patch (the images/ bits)
4) rebuild drakx-installer-stage2 with the perl-install/ part
5) rebuild drakx-installer-rescue with the rescue/ part
6) extract boot.iso from d-i-images, mdkinst.sqfs from d-i-stage2, and rescue.sqfd from d-i-rescue, and overwite install/{images,stage2} on your local mirror in order to test

I've commited the patch & uploaded a fixed installer.
lines are now ok (but vertical ones with languages with accents).
I suspect we got regressions in ncurses between 5.8 & 5.9

Source RPM: drakx-installer-binaries => ncurses

i can confirm it with the new boot.iso, most of it works nicely though

user and password dialog has issues now when typing stuff, definately with backspace

Created attachment 1939 [details]
text installer special chars display in custom partitioner

in custom partitioner, there is this when making a new partition (chosen language dutch)

you see that the likely reason for this is the ë character.

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Hi, i have a situatuion here...

https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2621

Do i fill a new bug? or its the same?

CC: (none) => controle.um

yep seems the same

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

assuming i understand the issue, it seems these problems only appear if you're not using utf-8... perhaps we can just make everything utf-8 and not have any problem anymore?

(In reply to comment #17)
> assuming i understand the issue, it seems these problems only appear if you're
> not using utf-8... perhaps we can just make everything utf-8 and not have any
> problem anymore?

I can't make everything utf-8.

hmm is there any reason this isn't assigned to tv?

check yourselft the maintainer of the ncurses package

i mean, tv did the last action on this bug. and he said there would be regressions... i assume he means to fix it as a lower priority? or did i read/assume this wrong?

Is this still valid? I think not?

it's been a while, but i haven't tested text installation recently...

Indeed it's fixed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED