diff -dur coreutils-5.0.utf/doc/coreutils.texi coreutils-5.0/doc/coreutils.texi
--- coreutils-5.0.utf/doc/coreutils.texi        2004-03-20 07:21:25 +0600
+++ coreutils-5.0/doc/coreutils.texi    2004-03-20 07:23:59 +0600
@@ -9583,6 +9583,15 @@
 @cindex beeping at input buffer full
 Enable beeping and not flushing input buffer if a character arrives
 when the input buffer is full.  Non-@acronym{POSIX}.  May be negated.
+
+@item iutf8
+@opindex iutf8
+@cindex UTF-8 input, process accordingly
+Behave according to the assumption that the input is in UTF-8, and thus
+some characters are represented by several bytes. This imposes more
+complexity on the processing of Backspace and Tab in the input.
+Non-@acronym{POSIX}. (Works for newer Linux kernels: 2.6.5 and other.) 
+May be negated.
 @end table
 
 
diff -dur coreutils-5.0.utf/src/stty.c coreutils-5.0/src/stty.c
--- coreutils-5.0.utf/src/stty.c        2002-12-18 14:53:47 +0600
+++ coreutils-5.0/src/stty.c    2004-03-20 07:30:41 +0600
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
 #if HAVE_TERMIOS_H
 # include <termios.h>
 #endif
+/* A hack before I find a better solution to make kernel's IUTF8 def visible */
+/* we don't want two colliding struct termios definitions. */
+#define termios HACK_HIDE_termios
+# include <linux-2.4.22-std-up/include/asm/termbits.h>
+#undef termios
 #ifdef GWINSZ_IN_SYS_IOCTL
 # include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #endif
@@ -238,6 +240,9 @@
 #ifdef IMAXBEL
   {"imaxbel", input, SANE_SET | REV, IMAXBEL, 0},
 #endif
+#ifdef IUTF8
+  {"iutf8", input, REV, IUTF8, 0},
+#endif
 
   {"opost", output, SANE_SET | REV, OPOST, 0},
 #ifdef OLCUC
@@ -591,6 +596,7 @@
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
  * [-]iuclc      translate uppercase characters to lowercase\n\
+ * [-]iutf8      assume input characters are UTF-8 encoded\n\
  * [-]ixany      let any character restart output, not only start character\n\
    [-]ixoff      enable sending of start/stop characters\n\
    [-]ixon       enable XON/XOFF flow control\n\