As of now, the kernel defaults to non-unicode and XLATE for the keyboard.
We've been changing this in Fedora, but that requires patching the defaults
in the kernel.

The attached introduces CONFIG_VT_UNICODE, which sets the console in
unicode mode by default on boot, including both the virtual terminal and
the keyboard driver.
Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>