Jens Petersen (petersen(a)redhat.com) said:
Whenever I use a virtual console (tty) I'm annoyed by the
white boxes that appear instead of Japanese text from error
messages or output, before remembering to set LANG=C.
Therefore I would like to propose falling back to LANG=C in
interactive shells for languages with no font on the virtual
console (vt) for FC3.
Get a better virtual console! :)
Bill