Japanese font is shown as squares on text console if RHEL8.0 is installed in Japanese
Issue
When RHEL8.0 is installed in Japanese, default LANG is set to
en_US.UTF-8 on text console, but standard output displayed in Japanese.
This problem does not occur on RHEL7.6.
How to reproduce (for example)
1. Start installing RHEL8 GA by virt-manager
2. Choose Japanese as a Language during installing
3. Reboot after finishing installing RHEL8
4. Open a console of the RHEL8 machine on virt-manager
5. Run a none-exists command
# hoge
6. You can see character corruption.
# hoge
-bash: hoge ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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