On 8/2/10, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote: > I confirm the issue here, so it seems we have to revert the options in > the kernel. That's a pitty because the goal was to use the UTF-8 > terminal to be able to have non-english language in debian-installer. Maybe this sounds crazy, but what if you put this in /sbin/init: #!/bin/sh exec xinit /usr/bin/xterm -e /sbin/oldinit and then you have UTF-8?