Re: German Umlauts on the console.

[Joachim Trinkwitz <upp105@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>]

"Helge Hafting" <helge.hafting@daldata.no> writes:

> >> 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
> 
> .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.
> 

I've no problems with german characters here without .inputrc and all
such stuff, only with this in /etc/bashrc:
   | set meta-flag on
   | set convert-meta off
   | set output-meta on
In /etc/profile there is:
   | export LANG=de_DE
   | export LC_ALL=de_DE
That's all, no extra fonts, unicode font maps etc.

Greetings,
joachim