qestion about Locales

["Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <hurschler@gmx.de>]

Hi,

I've installed Debian Testing/Unstable with the default Locale, and would like 
to keep English as the primary language of the system.  On the other hand, I 
also need to be able to use the German umlaut (äöü) characters.  In KDE I've 
set the Locale to Germany with English and German as languages, and that 
works as you can see in my email.  But the system itself doesn't deal with or 
can't display the umlauts, for insance in directory and file names, or in the 
console.  I've used dpkg-reconfigure locales to select one of the ISO DE 
locales, but nothing changed in console, I can't type umlauts and they arent 
displayed in existing names.  What else do I need to do, and how do I keep 
English as the primary language?

Thaks,

Christof
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Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
Bodenstedtstr. 13
D-30173 Hannover