getting german "umlauts" on potato

[Gerald <e9026078@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

Hi there!

i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps
when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as
xterm...

what am i missing?

i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont),
/etc/console-tools/config, console-screen.sh,  /etc/profile (included
export LC_TYPE=ISO-8859_1) read the man-pages connected to it... but it
took no effect.
-btw.: how do i find out if a charset has a screen-font-map included,
and isf i have to indicate one in /etc/console-tools/config?

please help, since the perl-tailoring of some customer-data textfiles is
much less annoying when the chars are not displayed in octal highlit
notation... :)

cheers,

    Gerald.

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