Public bug reported:
The charset (and special characters) are not displayed correctly in VGA
text-mode while usplash is running. There was a bug report #21567 in
which Michael Vogt already described the problem.:
'The kernel just refuses it in drivers/char/vt.c:con_font_set(). But that seems
to be because the vga text-mode uses parts of it's video memory to store the
fontmap. That can't work when in graphic mode obviously. I don't know why the
kernel doesn't store the fontmap for the next switch to text-mode. It looks
like
it keeps a copy in kernel memory anyway'
This bug still exists in Feisty. As the vga text-mode is currently still
the default mode in Ubuntu, it should affect nearly everybody until
he/she changes the console screen mode.
** Affects: console-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Charset is not set correctly in VGA text-mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144085
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