saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to emerge run

init.d/termencoding

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+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
+# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
+
+description="Configures terminal encoding."
+
+ttyn=${rc_tty_number:-${RC_TTY_NUMBER:-12}}
+: ${unicode:=${UNICODE}}
+
+depend()
+{
+	keyword -lxc -openvz -prefix -uml -vserver -xenu
+	use root
+	after bootmisc
+}
+
+start()
+{
+	local ttydev=/dev/tty n=
+	[ -d /dev/vc ] && ttydev=/dev/vc/
+
+	# Set terminal encoding to either ASCII or UNICODE.
+	# See utf-8(7) for more information.
+	local termencoding="%@" termmsg="ASCII"
+	if yesno ${unicode}; then
+		termencoding="%G"
+		termmsg="UTF-8"
+	fi
+
+	ebegin "Setting terminal encoding [$termmsg]"
+	n=1
+	while [ ${n} -le "$ttyn" ]; do
+		printf "\033%s" "$termencoding" >$ttydev$n
+		: $(( n += 1 ))
+	done
+
+	# Save the encoding for use immediately at boot
+	if checkpath -W "$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
+}