diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/i386-dotconfig b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/i386-dotconfig
index d40924910b..99ece2d225 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/i386-dotconfig
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/i386-dotconfig
@@ -5270,7 +5270,7 @@ CONFIG_9P_FS=m
 CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE=y
 # CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
 CONFIG_NLS=y
-CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
+CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
@@ -5308,7 +5308,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
 CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
 CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U=m
-CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m
+CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
 CONFIG_DLM=m
 # CONFIG_DLM_DEBUG is not set
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
index cac6928675..1b31a51a31 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/files/x86_64-dotconfig
@@ -5216,7 +5216,7 @@ CONFIG_9P_FS=m
 CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE=y
 # CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set
 CONFIG_NLS=y
-CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="iso8859-1"
+CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737=m
 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775=m
@@ -5254,7 +5254,7 @@ CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14=m
 CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
 CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
 CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U=m
-CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=m
+CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
 CONFIG_DLM=m
 # CONFIG_DLM_DEBUG is not set
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kernel/template b/srcpkgs/kernel/template
index 4c37006bad..31aee6bf8a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kernel/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/kernel/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 pkgname=kernel
 _kmajorver=3.4
 version=${_kmajorver}.4
-revision=3
+revision=4
 nostrip=yes
 noverifyrdeps=yes
 preserve=yes