#566878 mingetty: Does not support UTF-8 completely

Package:
mingetty
Source:
mingetty
Description:
Console-only getty
Submitter:
Helge Kreutzmann
Date:
2010-01-25 18:42:08 UTC
Severity:
important
#566878#5
Date:
2010-01-25 18:38:23 UTC
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To:
Using the Option --noclear UTF-8 support is broken, e.g. if I edit
files, non-ASCII characters are displayed funnily. Switching to a VT
without this option, the file displays fine, so the correct sequences
are sent to the editor but fail to be displayed.

Severity might be normal, but given that --noclear is a major option
I decided to use important.

A while ago I tried to contact upstream about this issue but failed to find
a working e-mail address.