Subject: Re: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:52:18 +0200

Hey,

> That’s exactly what it does, see (shepherd comm).
>
> Perhaps we just need to have the installer service depend on ‘syslogd’,
> at which point nothing goes to /dev/console?

Heh, I read it too fast, sorry :) The issue was in fact that we are
calling `start-service' and `stop-service' from `apply-locale' in (gnu
installer), and printing shepherd messages to shepherd-message-port
which is stderr by default.

Fixed on wip-installer-help.

Thanks,

Mathieu