Bug#379737: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#379737: cryptsetup: cannot handle UTF-8 in passphrase

[David Härdeman]

On Tue, July 25, 2006 11:49, Robert Bihlmeyer said:
> Maybe the console should be switched to Unicode mode akin to loading the
> right keymap?

Yes.

I'll add some code later this week to the initramfs hook which checks for
a UTF-8 locale (the same code that the kbd package init.d script uses),
and if so, the initramfs script will have to run "kbd_mode -u" and
"loadkeys --unicode" instead of simply running loadkeys.

Since the passphrase is never echoed to screen, it is overkill to also put
the console output itself in unicode mode (that will happen later with the
kbd init script anyway).

Regards,
David