I never had to set those (locale environment variables) to get the german keyboard to work (I set them to get german messages, though), but it's quiet interesting to know more about internals.
My question is now: When you are prompted to choose a keyboard, you could
suppose it working after the selection, why to choose then, if it doesn't
influence the behaviour of the keyboard at all? If you choose a non-US
keymap, the appropriate LC-variable (the charmap?) should be set too, shouldn't
it?
PS: I hope it worked for you, Peter, à propos, I saw there are german and
keyboard-How-To's at www.linuxdoc.org
> That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.)
>
> Two things are important:
>
> 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented
> (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey
> still works fine, BTW)
>
> 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'de_DE',
> which also lets
>
> LC_CTYPE (the culprit)
> LC_NUMERIC
> LC_TIME
> LC_COLLATE
> LC_MONETARY
> LC_MESSAGES
>
> default to 'de_DE'. If you're like me you'll like to override
> at least LC_MESSAGES back to 'en_US'.
>
> HTH
>
> Christian
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