Re: some german keys don't work..?

[Olivier Esser <ol.esser@belgacom.net>]

On Wednesday 06 November 2002 09:50, Pierre Burri wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> despite that I have set the keymap (with install-keymap) to
> de-latin1-nodeadkeys, some keys don't work like ö (oe) ä (ae) ü (ue) etc.
> Under Debian 2.2, I remember that I had to put the variable LANG=de_DE in
> the file /etc/environment. It doesn't seem to work anymore with 3.0.
> I would greatly appreciate some help.
> Pierre.

You have to configure the locales first

dpkg-reconfigure locales

then put the correct locale in /etc/environment as you mention in your e-mail