Bug#282781: debian-installer: Sparc64 RC2 netboot puts console in unicode mode erroneously

[Philip Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Just tried the Sparc64 RC2 netboot debian-installer on an Ultra 5.

It puts the console in unicode mode, despite the fact that the sparc
console doesn't appear to do unicode. This leads to a messed up
display, with characters out of place (usually, text is displaced a
character to the left, and the right hand edge of list-boxes appears
ragged rather than straight). It's usable, but doesn't exactly look
professional. Playing around with debconf/framebuffer=false or adding
LANG or LOCALE=C to the boot arguments didn't appear to make any
difference unfortunately.

cheers,

Phil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)