Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Hi everyone, > my system keeps giving me keyboard related toubles. I am running Debian > 2.0 with Kernel 2.1.123. I am trying to get a German keyboard layout on > the console. My keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map. The problem is: I > cannot get German umlauts to display on the console. > The curious thing is: I umlauts are displayed at the login prompt, but > as soon as I log in, either as normal user or as root, the umlaut keys > are not recognized anymore, no umlaut-characters are displayed, the > cursor does not advance, furthermore the "sharp-S"-key displays the last > command entered. I checked the Keyboard HOWTO but had no luck following > its suggestions. > Does anyone have any pointers for me?
I think "export LANG=de_DE" fixed this for me. Place it in your ~./bashrc, ~./bash_profile or whatever is appropriate for you. I think there is also a manpage or HOWTO somewhere about this but I can't find out at the moment. FYI, my ~/.bashrc also contains "export LC_MESSAGES=C" and "export LC_TIME=C" because I like messages and the time format to be english. Hope this helps, Thomas
