Re: German Umlauts on the console.
In <[🔎] 36238BFB.1A9EE397@gmx.net>, on 10/13/98
at 07:20 PM, Thomas Apel <thomas.apel@gmx.net> said:
>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.
.inputrc is also necessary. Take a look at the Danish-HOWTO, it explains
this and a lot of other stuff. The 8-bit character stuff should be no
different from Danish to German. Also select an appropriate console font
using setfont, the lat1u font should work. Also select a matching unicode
map using loadunimap lat1u in this case.
Font/unicode can be configured in /etc/kbd/conf Fonts/unicode maps are
found in subdirectories under /usr/share
Loadkeys is all you need for the keyboard to work, but that won't do much
good unless the console can display the characters entered.
Helge Hafting
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