Mageia kernels default to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso-8859-1". It would be elegant for this millennium and modern multilanguage environments to change it to CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8".
This is what does FC see http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kernel.git/plain/config-generic
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaudAssignee: bugsquad => tmbSource RPM: (none) => kernel
fixed in svn
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED