when will I learn? [was: getting german "umlauts" on potato]

2000-11-14 Thread Tomas Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 05:42:55PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:46:39AM +0100, Gerald wrote: > > It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in > > this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... I agree, hope that you folks can help me. The t

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:46:39AM +0100, Gerald wrote: > It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in > this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... > > the thing with the /etc/environment worked - but I couldn't find any > link to it though. I wonder where it is i

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Gerald
It's so nice to get such an immediate reply to almost any question in this list :) ! There's always somebody who knows... the thing with the /etc/environment worked - but I couldn't find any link to it though. I wonder where it is invoked or better said "sourced". greetings, Gerald. -- >vvv

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:13:10AM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > > If you're on bash, add to /etc/profile: > > LANG=de_DE ; export LANG > LC_ALL=de_DE ; export LC_ALL > LC_CTYPE="iso_8859_1" ; export LC_CTYPE > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE" ; export LC_MESSAGES you could also write these like so: export L

Re: getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Andre Berger
Gerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there! > > i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps > when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as > xterm... > > what am i missing? > > i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), > /etc/consol

getting german "umlauts" on potato

2000-11-12 Thread Gerald
Hi there! i found out to be unable to get other responses from my box than beeps when i press the german umlaut keys like öäü on console aswell as xterm... what am i missing? i fiddled arround with consolechars (former setfont), /etc/console-tools/config, console-screen.sh, /etc/profile (includ