Set unicode mode immediately at boot without consolefont

X-Gentoo-Bug: 354793
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/354793
Signed-off-by: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>

init.d/consolefont.in

@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ start()
 		done
 		cp "$font" "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console
 		echo "${font##*/}" >"$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/font
-		if yesno ${unicode:-${UNICODE}}; then
-			echo "" > "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/unicode
-		else
-			rm -f "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/unicode
-		fi
-
 	fi
 
 	return $retval

init.d/termencoding.in

@@ -31,5 +31,16 @@ start()
 		printf "\033%s" "$termencoding" >$ttydev$n
 		n=$(($n + 1))
 	done
+
+	# Save the encoding for use immediately at boot
+	if [ -w "$RC_LIBEXECDIR" ]; then
+		mkdir -p "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console
+		if yesno ${unicode:-${UNICODE}}; then
+			echo "" > "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/unicode
+		else
+			rm -f "$RC_LIBEXECDIR"/console/unicode
+		fi
+	fi
+
 	eend 0
 }