Bug#243373: non-breaking spaces

[Anton Zinoviev <zinoviev@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>]

On 14 April 2004 (Wednesday) at 14:32 (-0400) Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> I think the default option may need to have the leading space escaped so
> it looks the same as what is in the choices list. So you'd have:
> 
> Choices: \   a, \   b, \   c
> Default: \   b

I tried different ways with escaped spaces but without succes.

> I'm upgrading this bug to important, as it makes installation ugly and
> difficult on all arches that need a serial console, as well as any laptop
> where the frame buffer does not work.

A properly setup non-framebufer console can support non-break spaces
and UTF-8.  I think the following commands are sufficient:

for tty in /dev/tty[0-9]* /dev/vc/*; do
    echo -ne '\e(K' >$tty
    echo -ne '\e%G' >$tty
done
# kbd_mode -u

In principle I can look what needs to be changed/added to the
installer in order to setup properly the non-framebufer consoles;
unfortunately not during this and the next weeks because I have to go
on a short mission in Switzerland.

On the other hand we can not expect from every serial console to
support UTF-8.  Because of that on serial consoles partman may not use
non ASCII-symbols.

Anton Zinoviev