Comment 11 for bug 118906

Ok, after a bit of digging (should have done this in the first place), I have Finnish keyboard and I noticed that some special characters (eurosymbol, äöå) don't work as well. I was able to fix that and colours by doing:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/console-tools/+bug/83487 has some more information on topic, this but might be a duplicate of that.