Re: german characters (ü,ö,ä,ß) on debian linux

[Oliver Fuchs <oliverfuchs@onlinehome.de>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Matthias Schweinoch wrote:

> i run a woody 3.0r1 linux, and i can't seem to get certain german characters displayed (or typed). this effect is limited to certain applications. for example, i can see and type the characters in my mailer, (as they appear in the subject line), emacs will take them (though saving files with these characters will typically bugger them up), but in an xterm (or konsole), or when i work with x11 disabled, i can't type or see these characters: when i call "ls" on a directory that holds entries with these characters, they will be replaced by a question mark... trying to type them gives me the error beep.

Hi,

maqybe you try this:

1) edit /etc/inputrc:
 # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
 # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
 # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.
   set convert-meta off
2) run dpkg-reconfigure localeconf
3) run dpkg-reconfigure locales
4) change your language settings in kde

Oliver
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