Bug#398686: debian-installer: [ia64] partitioning screen rendering problem w/ serial console

[Bryan Stillwell <bryan.stillwell@hp.com>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> This looks like a failure to display the NBSP characters added to
> partman items to ensure that each item in the select list is unique.
> It seems that rather than display a space character for the NBSP, it
> displays nothing. One possibility might be running the installer in a
> terminal that does not support utf-8.

Joey,

I think you might be right on that.  I switched the encoding in konsole 
to "Western European (iso8859-1)" and the formatting now looks correct, 
but there's some extra characters in the output now:

http://www.bokeoa.com/files/di-serial-iso8859-1.png

Is there any way these NBSP characters can be replaced with non-utf8 
characters so that serial console installs with the newt interface can 
render properly?  I know from other testing that RHEL4 and SLES10 can 
install without any rendering artifacts with the same serial console.

Thanks,
Bryan