From: Fabrice Menard Trying to solve my latin1 char problems with the framebuffer console, I found that fbcon doesn't set a unicode map. --- 25-akpm/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-and-unimap drivers/video/console/fbcon.c --- 25/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-and-unimap 2004-04-26 19:44:50.810445480 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c 2004-04-26 19:44:50.814444872 -0700 @@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ static void fbcon_init(struct vc_data *v fb_display[unit].scrollmode = SCROLL_YNOMOVE; else fb_display[unit].scrollmode = SCROLL_YREDRAW; + con_set_default_unimap(unit); fbcon_set_display(vc, init, !init); } _