Plymouth sets ISTRIP making 8-bit character input impossible

[Ray Strode]

Hi,
> I do not use framebuffer and when I had to break dracut init during
> boot for debugging I found that above script sets istrip on console
> making 8-bit input (actually, UTF-8) impossible.
>
> Is there any reason for plymouth to set istrip? This looks rather
> strange today, given that Linux defaults to Unicode on console for at
> least three years I think.
No, it was totally a bug. Fixed in master, now:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/plymouth/commit/?id=aba7c7b89fcbbfa516d86f50f7b89a593ca95303

Thanks,
Ray