On 02 Feb 2001 15:28:55 +0100, Radu Muschevici wrote: > A few days ago I upgraded from potato to testing(woody). In the uprgrade > process I was asked to set the language, but then, unfortunately, I have > chosen not to do so. > > Since then, many programs (bash, mutt, all GTK Apps) cannot display special > characters properly, like german Umlauts etc. > > How can I correct this?
Edit /etc/locale.gen, then run locale-gen as root. Set the locale env variables (LC_*) so that it fits your needs. Explore the packages language-env and user-de. Go to the list archive and look up the numerous questoins that have been asked (and somtimes even answered) about locales in the last several weeks. Good luck -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
