GNU bug report logs - #40273
installer: No way to input Latin characters with non-Latin keyboard layouts

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>

Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 13:43:01 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40273: installer: No way to input Latin characters with
 non-Latin keyboard layouts
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
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