Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Til Schubbe <lists@lists.schubbe.org>]

On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:

> I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing "Ã?" instead of "ä".

I sent the characters from the specific system to me via email. While
on the specific system they look different, here they look like these:

ae À
oe ö
ue Ì
ss Ã\237

> Generally I would 
> recommend to switch to a UTF-8 locale now,

Ok.

> the utf8-migration-tool 
> package can help you with the transition.

# /usr/bin/utf8migrationtool
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/utf8migrationtool", line 3, in <module>
    import sys, locale, os, gtk, gobject
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
line 48, in <module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
FT_Select_Size

# ls -l /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-01-22 23:52
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 -> libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
# ls -l /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176720 2008-11-18 10:25
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0

What's wrong with utf8migrationtool resp.
/usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1?

Regards
Til