[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole: properly set terminal UTF-8 mode

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 15:35, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> We cannot assume terminal is in UTF-8 (actually, unless
> setup by initrd it likely is not). Properly set requested
> mode. This avoids errors similar to

Why isn't it utf8 by default?

That should have been changed long ago:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/7/37

Kay