Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

[Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de>]

Gerald <e9026078@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> 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.

If you're on bash, add to /etc/profile:

LANG=de_DE ; export LANG
LC_ALL=de_DE ; export LC_ALL
LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1" ; export LC_CTYPE
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE" ; export LC_MESSAGES

Now if anybody could tell me why I have no dead keys using

Section "Keyboard"
        Protocol    "Standard"
        XkbModel    "pc101"
        XkbLayout   "de"
        XkbVariant  "nodeadkeys"
EndSection 

in my /etc/X11/Xf86Config?

-- Andre