[Debconf-devel] Bug#989692: debconf: Some bad encoding in finnish text in debconf template My system uses finnish langue. When I give the command dpkg-reconfigure debconf I see an template where finnish text is messed up, at least every ä is replaced with some others. I know that is an encoding problem. This is very minor issue, but maybe someone could work on it? Note that you must use finnish to see the text. But I think you could use also i386 and see the same problem.

[Ilari Halminen]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.71
Severity: minor

I do not want to send real bug because I not so sure that I managed to make a good bug report. And issue is very little.
Have nice day!

Ilari Halminen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.9
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  perl-base  5.28.1-6+deb10u1

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils     1.8.2.3
ii  debconf-i18n  1.5.71

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
ii  debconf-doc                1.5.71
pn  debconf-kde-helper         <none>
ii  debconf-utils              1.5.71
ii  dialog                     1.3-20190211-1
ii  libgtk3-perl               0.034-2
pn  libnet-ldap-perl           <none>
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.36-1
ii  perl                       5.28.1-6+deb10u1
ii  whiptail                   0.52.20-8

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/debconf.conf changed:
Config: configdb
Templates: templatedb
Name:  vanhakopio
Driver: File
Mode: 644
Reject-Type: password
Filename: /home/datapuu/debconf/vanhakopio.dat
Name: passwords
Driver: File
Mode: 600
Required: false
Accept-Type: password
Filename: /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat
Name: configdb
Driver: Stack
Stack: vanhakopio, passwords
Name: templatedb
Driver: File
Mode: 644
Filename: /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat


-- debconf information:
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
* debconf/priority: medium
* debconf/frontend: Gnome
  debconf-apt-progress/title: