RE: German keys on console
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote:
> That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.)
>
> Two things are important:
>
> 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented
> (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey
> still works fine, BTW)
>
> 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'de_DE',
> which also lets
>
> LC_CTYPE (the culprit)
> LC_NUMERIC
> LC_TIME
> LC_COLLATE
> LC_MONETARY
> LC_MESSAGES
>
> default to 'de_DE'. If you're like me you'll like to override
> at least LC_MESSAGES back to 'en_US'.
Only 2) is important. If you set the locale properly you don't have to
change /etc/inputrc at all.
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