kde konsole & unicode not working

[chymian <chymian@gmx.net>]

hi,
using sarge and kde 3.2.3, trying to set up the konsole to display
german charset does not work.
when i type umlaut a u o, get a twobyte output like:
ö: ö
ä: À ...

have set unicode font in setup of konsole.

unicode is working at console
and uxterm, as well as in other applications.

~/.kde/share/apps/konsole looks like:
[Desktop Entry]
Cwd=
Exec=
Font=8
Icon=openterm
KeyTab=
Name=Befehlsfenster
Schema=
Term=xterm
Type=KonsoleApplication
Encoding=UTF-8

# environment
export              LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export          LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export       LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export              LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export          LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export        LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export           LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export       LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export       LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export          LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export           LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export        LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export      LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export    LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8@euro
export            LC_ALL=
export        MM_CHARSET=de_DE.UTF-8@euro

$ cat /etc/locale.gen
de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
de_DE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8
de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15

$ zcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/console8x*.pcf.gz | strings | grep
Misc
Misc
-Misc-Console-Medium-R-Normal--16-160-72-72-C-80-ISO10646-1
Misc
-Misc-Console-Medium-R-Normal--8-80-72-72-C-80-ISO10646-1


any hints
TIA & cheers
günter