[feisty] no german umlauts (äöüß) on terminal

What characters are shown?

what is your LOCALE and LANG information in the environment variables? (execute 'env')

Do you refer when you enter them through the keyboard, or if you look at a file?

What do you use to show them? just cat, or do you use an editor?

What keyboard layout did you configure? What keyboard layout do you use?

The characters shown are in the file umlauts.txt

The LOCALE and LANG are in env.txt

They are printed incorrect in both text files and entered directly.

It doesn't matter if I use cat or vi.

The keyboard layout I configured is german.

I can confirm this behaviour.

Ok.. the characters are definitely UTF-8, they are shown wrongly because the terminal seem to show iso8859-1.

I have been able to reproduce it in feisty, it shows it wrongly even it is supposedly in unicode mode.

When I execute

sudo setupcon

executed in feisty changes the console settings such that umlaute are shown correctly, however, it also changes the fonts and displays thoses umlaute brighter than the other letters

So will this be fixed before the RC arrives?

This can be reproduced by simply by displaying files containing uft-8 encoded characters on a tty-terminal

When will this annoying bug be fixed?

Pleaaaaase fix it before the final version arrives on April 19.

Or if you cannot fix it: Isn't there some workaround without running setupcon?

Same here, feisty final on amd64. The problem wasn't there for me on the beta version.

Not a coreutils bug (coreutils is a collection of utilities like cat, cp, mv...). Perhaps console-setup?

I didn't get ISO-8859-1 characters when I tried to cat a file with a few UTF-8 characters: instead, I got funky graphics characters (similar to what you'd see if you echo a Control-N to the terminal, followed by text, only twice as tall).

Running "setupcon" fixed it instantly. Perhaps there was supposed to be an rc thing that ran at startup, that is no longer happening?

Oh, I thought it was a bug of tty, that's why I marked it as coreutils bug.

Setupcon also works for me. Thanks!

Ah! I see the confusion, then. Yes, it could be a bug with the tty (the console); but it's not a bug with the tty /program/, which is just a tool that prints out the pathname of the tty you're currently using. :)

Right, this turned out to be a usplash bug in the end, and is also bug 91422.