Comment 13 for bug 99337

Not a coreutils bug (coreutils is a collection of utilities like cat, cp, mv...). Perhaps console-setup?

I didn't get ISO-8859-1 characters when I tried to cat a file with a few UTF-8 characters: instead, I got funky graphics characters (similar to what you'd see if you echo a Control-N to the terminal, followed by text, only twice as tall).

Running "setupcon" fixed it instantly. Perhaps there was supposed to be an rc thing that ran at startup, that is no longer happening?