<div>Hi Philippe,</div><div><br></div><div>By looking at the code it seems that systemd sets <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">/sys/module/vt/parameters/default_utf8 based on the locale setting which makes sense:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><a href="https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/vconsole/vconsole-setup.c#L92">https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/vconsole/vconsole-setup.c#L92</a><div><br></div><div>Can you paste the output of 'localectl' ?</div><div>If it shows UTF-8, try to change it in /etc/default/locale</div><div><br></div><div>regards,</div><div>Philipp<br><div><br></div></div>