Bug#352449: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#352449: console-setup: seriously broken

[Denis Barbier]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:10:06AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Son, 12 Feb 2006, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > - the settings do not affect all terminals, only the one I am logged in
> > >   and call dpkg-reconfigure, so I cannot enter any umlauts in any other
> > >   console thant the one I called setupconf from.
> > 
> > This is normal, users cannot modify other ttys unless they are also
> > logged into them.
> 
> Then what are the settings tty[1-6] for? I did ALL this as root! And
> root should be able to change everything?

I assumed that you were running setupcon as a normal user.  As root, it
should indeed change all ttys, and it does indeed with my tests.
You may run "setupcon -v".  If you only see one message "Loading font ..."
this means that setupcon tries to change only the current tty.

[...]
> I assume that this has something todo with some double-width chars, or
> utf8 encoded chars which somehow manage to come into the console as one
> 8bit char to be displayed, but in some buffer they are still as two
> chars.

Yes, this is surely the case.

Denis