Bug#820213: console-setup: The non breaking space has a bad symbol with fr_FR charset

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 07:02:03PM +0200, rpnpif wrote:
> 
> In fr_FR.UTF-8 charset, Lat15 for console-setup or also guest charset, 
> console-setup change the non-breaking space in the boot message of 
> systemd to garbage character.

Unfortunately, at the moment I have no idea what might have caused this 
strange behaviour.  Moreover, I am unable to reproduce it.  I booted my 
system with French locale and fsck displayed the non-break space 
correctly.

Could you check the following two things.  First, is everything correct 
after the system has booted?  Try for example on the text console as 
root the following commands:

  dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.hdi count=100000
  mkfs.ext4 /tmp/test.hdi
  fsck.ext4 /tmp/test.hdi

Second, when do the following messages occur?

> /dev/sda2€: propre ...
> /dev/sda3€: propre ...

Before the framebuffer is activated (big letters) or afterwards (small 
letters)?  Can you observe the exact time when console-setup modifies 
the font (not the size of the letters but their shape)?

> Whatever the font, a non-breaking space should be displayed in fr_FR 
> before this colon or at least a simple space. The non-breaking space 
> is better.

On the console 'non-breaking space' = 'space'.

Anton Zinoviev