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bug#64006: Installation frustration weekend
From: |
Denys Nykula |
Subject: |
bug#64006: Installation frustration weekend |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:17:35 +0300 |
Thanks for your comments. What I can answer right away is that I've
found the issue 59975 and the related commit too, but I still look at
it as a bug, even if the earlier behavior was accidental (i.e. if the
font with Cyrillic support was chosen for its typographic characters).
If a user during the installation selects their language and, after
booting, sees question marks instead of all localized strings, that
affects them more than seeing only ASCII progress bars.
I think the installer should conditionally revert the progress bars (is
that possible?) and set LatGrkCyr-8x16 as the console font, if the
system locale is Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Belarusian, Serbian
or Russian. That's what Debian-based distributions do; other
approaches are probably possible (choose the default font in the GNU
service at boot time?). When I learn more of the system internals,
I'll try to make a patch. Adding console-font-service-type to the Guix
config like the documentation suggests didn't work, it complained that
the service already existed, so I ran setfont manually to get a
minimally working system with which I can work on my documents and
debug the graphical display issue later. Note to self: learn about
modify-services.