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Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26



On 2010-02-07 00:46 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:

> On 2010-02-06 Sven wrote:
>
>> What does the 'locale' command print?
>
> Now...
>
> $ locale
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

You should also change the system locale.  Please check /etc/enviroment
and /etc/default/locale and run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' if necessary.

> Errormessages and texts are displayed in a weired way: The ls-command
> called with an illegal option says: "UngA.ltige Option" with the dot
> being a 1/4-sign. And the editor 'joe' tells in it's status line that
> the file has been "GeÃ#ndert" (3rd char: capital A with tilde, 4th
> char: Euro-sign).

So the programs output UTF-8, but your terminal is not ready for that.
Try to run 'unicode_start' and see if that helps.

The reason you need to set up a UTF-8 system locale is that
console-tools' init script checks for it and puts the terminal in
Unicode or ASCII mode depending on the value.

Sven


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