lee wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2008-12-07 20:38 +0100, lee wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > how can I get xterm and xemacs to display German Umlaute correctly? >> > I've configured locales so that they are available, but changing LANG >> > in xterm or trying to change the encoding xemacs uses for a buffer >> > don't get the Umlaute displayed. I've never had this problem before, >> > it just worked fine after configuring the right locales. The only >> > difference is that I don't have a German keyboard now and that I'm >> > using amd64 instead of i386. >> >> Please show the output of "locale". > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale > LANG=en_US > LC_CTYPE="en_US" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US" > LC_TIME="en_US" > LC_COLLATE="en_US" > LC_MONETARY="en_US" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US" > LC_PAPER="en_US" > LC_NAME="en_US" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" > LC_ALL= > > > I tried it with de_DE.ISO-8859-1, and it didn't work, either. > > But when I gave up trying to get it to work and started to answer the > mail containing Umlaute, it suddenly worked. I don't know why, but > even xterm shows them now. > >
try export LC_ALL=de_DE this is equivalent to ISO-8859-1/15 export LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 speaks for itself regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
