Re: German Umlauts on the console.

[Thomas Apel <thomas.apel@gmx.net>]

Stephan Engelke wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian
> 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on
> the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.  The problem is:  I
> cannot get German umlauts to display on the console.
> The curious thing is: I umlauts are displayed at the login prompt, but
> as soon as I log in, either as normal user or as root, the umlaut keys
> are not recognized anymore, no umlaut-characters are displayed, the
> cursor does not advance, furthermore the "sharp-S"-key displays the last
> command entered.  I checked the Keyboard HOWTO but had no luck following
> its suggestions.
> Does anyone have any pointers for me?

I think "export LANG=de_DE" fixed this for me. Place it in your
~./bashrc, ~./bash_profile or whatever is appropriate for you. I think
there is also a manpage or HOWTO somewhere about this but I can't find
out at the moment.

FYI, my ~/.bashrc also contains "export LC_MESSAGES=C" and "export
LC_TIME=C" because I like messages and the time format to be english.

Hope this helps,
Thomas