diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/fat/inode.c linux-2.6.3/fs/fat/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/fat/inode.c	2004-02-18 04:57:46.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/fs/fat/inode.c	2004-02-22 14:01:03.215500528 +0100
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
 		seq_printf(m, ",codepage=%s", sbi->nls_disk->charset);
 	if (isvfat) {
 		if (sbi->nls_io
-		    && strcmp(sbi->nls_io->charset, CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT))
+		    && strcmp(sbi->nls_io->charset, nls_default_name))
 			seq_printf(m, ",iocharset=%s", sbi->nls_io->charset);
 
 		switch (opts->shortname) {
diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/nls/nls_base.c linux-2.6.3/fs/nls/nls_base.c
--- linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/nls/nls_base.c	2004-02-18 04:58:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/fs/nls/nls_base.c	2004-02-22 14:02:34.984549512 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 #endif
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 
+char nls_default_name[40] = CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT;
+
 static struct nls_table default_table;
 static struct nls_table *tables = &default_table;
 static spinlock_t nls_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
@@ -477,13 +479,14 @@
 {
 	struct nls_table *default_nls;
 	
-	default_nls = load_nls(CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT);
+	default_nls = load_nls(nls_default_name);
 	if (default_nls != NULL)
 		return default_nls;
 	else
 		return &default_table;
 }
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(nls_default_name);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_nls);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_nls);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unload_nls);
diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/smbfs/inode.c linux-2.6.3/fs/smbfs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.3/fs.orig/smbfs/inode.c	2004-02-18 04:57:16.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/fs/smbfs/inode.c	2004-02-22 14:03:11.597983424 +0100
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
 	seq_printf(s, ",file_mode=%04o", mnt->file_mode & S_IRWXUGO);
 	seq_printf(s, ",dir_mode=%04o", mnt->dir_mode & S_IRWXUGO);
 
-	if (strcmp(mnt->codepage.local_name, CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT))
+	if (strcmp(mnt->codepage.local_name, nls_default_name))
 		seq_printf(s, ",iocharset=%s", mnt->codepage.local_name);
 	if (strcmp(mnt->codepage.remote_name, SMB_NLS_REMOTE))
 		seq_printf(s, ",codepage=%s", mnt->codepage.remote_name);
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
 	mnt = server->mnt;
 
 	memset(mnt, 0, sizeof(struct smb_mount_data_kernel));
-	strlcpy(mnt->codepage.local_name, CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT,
+	strlcpy(mnt->codepage.local_name, nls_default_name,
 		SMB_NLS_MAXNAMELEN);
 	strlcpy(mnt->codepage.remote_name, SMB_NLS_REMOTE,
 		SMB_NLS_MAXNAMELEN);
diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/include.orig/linux/nls.h linux-2.6.3/include/linux/nls.h
--- linux-2.6.3/include.orig/linux/nls.h	2004-02-18 04:57:22.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/include/linux/nls.h	2004-02-22 13:59:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #define NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE 6 /* for UTF-8 */
 
 /* nls.c */
+extern char nls_default_name[];
+
 extern int register_nls(struct nls_table *);
 extern int unregister_nls(struct nls_table *);
 extern struct nls_table *load_nls(char *);
diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/include.orig/linux/sysctl.h linux-2.6.3/include/linux/sysctl.h
--- linux-2.6.3/include.orig/linux/sysctl.h	2004-02-22 13:54:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/include/linux/sysctl.h	2004-02-22 13:58:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -624,6 +624,7 @@
 	FS_XFS=17,	/* struct: control xfs parameters */
 	FS_AIO_NR=18,	/* current system-wide number of aio requests */
 	FS_AIO_MAX_NR=19,	/* system-wide maximum number of aio requests */
+	FS_NLS_DEFAULT=20,	/* string:default console character set */
 };
 
 /* /proc/sys/fs/quota/ */
diff -Nur linux-2.6.3/kernel.orig/sysctl.c linux-2.6.3/kernel/sysctl.c
--- linux-2.6.3/kernel.orig/sysctl.c	2004-02-22 13:54:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.3/kernel/sysctl.c	2004-02-22 13:58:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
 extern char hotplug_path[];
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_NLS
+extern char nls_default_name[];
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG
 extern int sg_big_buff;
 #endif
@@ -844,6 +847,17 @@
 		.mode		= 0644,
 		.proc_handler	= &proc_dointvec,
 	},
+#ifdef CONFIG_NLS
+	{
+		.ctl_name	= FS_NLS_DEFAULT,
+		.procname	= "nls-default",
+		.data		= &nls_default_name,
+		.maxlen		= 40,
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= &proc_dostring,
+		.strategy	= &sysctl_string,
+	},
+#endif
 	{ .ctl_name = 0 }
 };