[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#637613: Bug#637613: base: Terminal can't display Korean when the system locale is Korean.

[Amaya]

reassign 637613 d-i
thanks

Hughe Chung wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i l10n
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> 
> When the user selects only Korean language from installer and install only standard system
> the console can't display Korean messages at all. 
> 
> This is very serious problem for Korean users.
> 
> The installer must provide console environment that display Korean properly if system 
> locale is Korean and it's the only language set by the user. 
> 
> To fix the problem, user needs to add English locale as super user.
> 
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> Add en_US.utf-8
> 
> Then change English as system locale or set export LANG=en_US.utf-8.
> 
> The window messages are unreadable - full of tiny retangles.
> Without the knowlede or access to other system, users will unlikely give up or reinstall 
> the system.
> 
> It makes Debian as useless system. When I used to use IBM XT years ago, MS-DOS provides
> console that handles Korean using bitmap fonts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.2
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> 
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