Mohamed Eldesoky (m.eldesoky(a)tedata.net) said:
Hm. To do this robustly would require checking the locale
when updfstab is run, so that it's not set to utf8 on a system
where the default locale isn't utf8. Then you run into the
issue where it's spawned from hotplug, where I'm pretty sure
the system locale isn't set.
Bill