In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/13/98 at 07:20 PM, Thomas Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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. .inputrc is also necessary. Take a look at the Danish-HOWTO, it explains this and a lot of other stuff. The 8-bit character stuff should be no different from Danish to German. Also select an appropriate console font using setfont, the lat1u font should work. Also select a matching unicode map using loadunimap lat1u in this case. Font/unicode can be configured in /etc/kbd/conf Fonts/unicode maps are found in subdirectories under /usr/share Loadkeys is all you need for the keyboard to work, but that won't do much good unless the console can display the characters entered. Helge Hafting -- ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------
