diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index 2252e11d8347..accbd1257bc4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -80,21 +80,17 @@ void clear_selection(void)
 
 /*
  * User settable table: what characters are to be considered alphabetic?
- * 256 bits. Locked by the console lock.
+ * 128 bits. Locked by the console lock.
  */
-static u32 inwordLut[8]={
+static u32 inwordLut[]={
   0x00000000, /* control chars     */
   0x03FFE000, /* digits and "-./"  */
   0x87FFFFFE, /* uppercase and '_' */
   0x07FFFFFE, /* lowercase         */
-  0x00000000,
-  0x00000000,
-  0xFF7FFFFF, /* latin-1 accented letters, not multiplication sign */
-  0xFF7FFFFF  /* latin-1 accented letters, not division sign */
 };
 
 static inline int inword(const u16 c) {
-	return c > 0xff || (( inwordLut[c>>5] >> (c & 0x1F) ) & 1);
+	return c > 0x7f || (( inwordLut[c>>5] >> (c & 0x1F) ) & 1);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -106,10 +102,10 @@ static inline int inword(const u16 c) {
  */
 int sel_loadlut(char __user *p)
 {
-	u32 tmplut[8];
-	if (copy_from_user(tmplut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), 32))
+	u32 tmplut[ARRAY_SIZE(inwordLut)];
+	if (copy_from_user(tmplut, (u32 __user *)(p+4), sizeof(inwordLut)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-	memcpy(inwordLut, tmplut, 32);
+	memcpy(inwordLut, tmplut, sizeof(inwordLut));
 	return 0;
 }