diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d42feed6f..f8f7a8cb7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 grub2 (2.00-10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Support parallel builds.
+  * Remove /boot/grub/unicode.pf2 on purge of grub-efi-{amd64,i386} (closes:
+    #697183).
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:58:20 +0000
 
diff --git a/debian/postrm.in b/debian/postrm.in
index 83b89c022..d9237f017 100644
--- a/debian/postrm.in
+++ b/debian/postrm.in
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ case "$1" in
           rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /boot/grub || true
         fi
       ;;
+
+      grub-efi-ia32|grub-efi-amd64)
+        rm -f /boot/grub/unicode.pf2
+      ;;
     esac
 
   ;;