Dave Jones (davej@redhat.com) said:
... but, the vt is normally in unicode when the kernel oopses, without issues. Does newt/slang set it to a *different* mode?
What I think is happening is the kernel is trying to output text in the middle of a multi-byte unicode sequence, resulting in garbage.
If that's the case, wouldn't it 'sometimes work' instead of 'always fail'?
Bill