UTF-8 locales and the Linux console.

From: Gaute B Strokkenes (biggaute_at_uwc.net)
Date: 08/31/03

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:36:16 +0100

    I recently switched my locale from no_NO.ISO-8859-1 to no_NO.UTF-8.
    This seems to work great, at least under Gnome and X. However, the
    Linux console does not know that I'm using UTF-8 and interprets all
    the UTF-8 that various programs spew out as ISO-8859-1.

    There is a command line program called unicode_start which will
    un-confuse the kernel nicely. However, I need to invoke that manually
    rather to frequently. Is there a officially blessed way to set the
    kernel console in UTF-8 mode on startup? dpkg-reconfigure
    console-tools and friends only seem to deal with my keyboard layout. 

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