Re: Umlaute
lee wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2008-12-07 20:38 +0100, lee wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > how can I get xterm and xemacs to display German Umlaute correctly?
>> > I've configured locales so that they are available, but changing LANG
>> > in xterm or trying to change the encoding xemacs uses for a buffer
>> > don't get the Umlaute displayed. I've never had this problem before,
>> > it just worked fine after configuring the right locales. The only
>> > difference is that I don't have a German keyboard now and that I'm
>> > using amd64 instead of i386.
>>
>> Please show the output of "locale".
>
>
> lee@cat:~$ locale
> LANG=en_US
> LC_CTYPE="en_US"
> LC_NUMERIC="en_US"
> LC_TIME="en_US"
> LC_COLLATE="en_US"
> LC_MONETARY="en_US"
> LC_MESSAGES="en_US"
> LC_PAPER="en_US"
> LC_NAME="en_US"
> LC_ADDRESS="en_US"
> LC_TELEPHONE="en_US"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US"
> LC_ALL=
>
>
> I tried it with de_DE.ISO-8859-1, and it didn't work, either.
>
> But when I gave up trying to get it to work and started to answer the
> mail containing Umlaute, it suddenly worked. I don't know why, but
> even xterm shows them now.
>
>
try export LC_ALL=de_DE
this is equivalent to ISO-8859-1/15
export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
speaks for itself
regards
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