Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Umlauts displayed incorrectly during keyboard layout selection

Bug #78867 reported by Nicolai Hähnle
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Ralph Janke

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Using: Kubuntu Feisty Herd 1 CD from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-1/
(4a5c19a18694954d94c447f71f5e2a88 feisty-desktop-i386.iso)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start from the CD and click Install on the desktop
2. Choose German in the language selection
3. In the keyboard layout selection step, enter some umlauts into the test field.

The umlauts (and some other characters) appear as two squares instead of äöü.

The keyboard layout itself appears to be correct (in particular, z and y are where they're supposed to be), it's just the test form that doesn't display the characters correctly.

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Nicolai Hähnle (nha) wrote :

Update, using Kubuntu Feisty Herd 2:

If I boot the system, configuring German language and keyboard layout in the boot manager, then everything works correctly in this part of the installer.

If I "forget" to configure German language and keyboard layout in the boot manager, the problem still occurs in a slightly different way: Now instead of yielding two squares, umlauts aren't displayed at all - it's as if the umlaut keys (and apparently the same set of keys that had problems before) were no-ops.

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Nicolai Hähnle (nha) wrote :

I've just tested again using Kubuntu Feisty Herd 4. The problem still exists, unchanged from Herd 2.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in ubiquity:
assignee: nobody → txwikinger
status: New → Incomplete
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Magnus S (magnuss) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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