After installing Gentoo 1.4(b) I encounterd problems when using the German "umlaute" on a terminal. This doesn't happen with virtual terminals and other applications under X. Only non-X-applications and the terminal shell are affected. I've tried using an alternative keymap from another installation but this didn't help. Can you confirm the bug? The latest version of "kbd" ( I don't know which package the keymaps belong to..) here is 1.06-r1. Greetings, tobias
The same for me. No X applications are affected, it seems to be a gnome (gnome-print) problem
i just checked the environment variable LANG and appropriate LC_ variables. When setting LANG to de_DE in your ~/.bash_profile (i think you are using bash?) then the keys appears. LC_MESSAGES is for me set to en_US. you can also check the locale settings with the command "locale" But setting the locale to DE will display the wrong date/time format in ls (even with LC_TIME=de_DE)
Tobias, does the suggestion Thomas made solve your problem?
Thanks for all your help. Actually I'm using the English language as my default system language so my .bash_profile entries are: LANG=C LC_CTYPE=de_DE@Euro Another problem I encountered is, that under X i don't have the "Euro" Symbol. But thats another issue I guess. Have to play a bit with some locales. Somebody told me that I have to use CONSOLEFONT="lat0-12" for making the "umlaute" work properly under non-X apps. I'll keep you up2date. :)
Allright. I changed the CONSOLEFONT to "lat9w-16" and everything (umlaute, euro symbol,"
Allright. I changed the CONSOLEFONT to "lat9w-16" and everything (umlaute, euro symbol,"ß", etc.) works. :) Cheers, tobias
