--- kbd-1.12/src/unicode_start~	2007-02-11 18:49:09.000000000 +0100
+++ kbd-1.12/src/unicode_start	2007-02-11 18:59:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
 
 kbd_mode -u
 
+# Set the kernel line editor in Unicode mode. This makes Backspace
+# delete one character rather than one byte, etc.
+
+stty iutf8
+
 # Change the keyboard mapping in such a way that the non-ASCII keys
 # produce UTF-8 encoded multibyte sequences, instead of single bytes
 # >= 0x80 in a legacy 8-bit encoding.
--- kbd-1.12/src/unicode_stop~	2007-02-11 18:49:09.000000000 +0100
+++ kbd-1.12/src/unicode_stop	2007-02-11 19:00:08.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # stop unicode
 kbd_mode -a
+stty -iutf8
 if test -t ; then
 	echo -n -e '\033%@'
 fi