On 2010-02-07 Sven wrote: > You should also change the system locale. Please check > /etc/enviroment and /etc/default/locale and run 'dpkg-reconfigure > locales' if necessary.
$ cat /etc/enviroment |egrep -v ^# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 $ cat /etc/default/locale |egrep -v ^# LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 And then I ran 'dpkg-reconfigure locales'. > So the programs output UTF-8, but your terminal is not ready for > that. Try to run 'unicode_start' and see if that helps. After switching on the computer today, for all users it says: $ unicode_start unicode_start: Already in UTF8 mode > The reason you need to set up a UTF-8 system locale is that > console-tools' init script checks for it and puts the terminal in > Unicode or ASCII mode depending on the value. Now the umlaut-keys generate the right characters. But for all users 'ls -6' tells: ls: Ungültige Option -- 6 .ls --help. gibt weitere Informationen. with the 1st + the 2nd dot being a square. Copying, pasting with gpm + piping this square through 'hex' it seems to consist of 3 characters: 'e2 96 a0'. Regards Til -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org