diff -urNp elinks-0.12pre1-orig/src/config/options.inc elinks-0.12pre1/src/config/options.inc
--- elinks-0.12pre1-orig/src/config/options.inc	2008-07-01 02:11:44.000000000 +0200
+++ elinks-0.12pre1/src/config/options.inc	2008-07-01 16:00:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static struct option_info config_options
 	 * not defined, it should not be possible to set UTF-8 as "codepage";
 	 * please report any such possibilities as bugs.)  */
 	INIT_OPT_BOOL("terminal._template_", N_("UTF-8 I/O"),
-		"utf_8_io", 0, 0,
+		"utf_8_io", 0, 1,
 		N_("Enable I/O in UTF-8 for Unicode terminals. Note that currently,\n"
 		"only the subset of UTF-8 according to terminal codepage is used.\n"
 		"ELinks ignores this option if the terminal codepage is UTF-8.")),