Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:35:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard settings curiosity Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012032340020.441-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012031947440.59659-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Dear Sirs.
>
> [...snip...]
>
> Well, I will talk about the SC console driven machines. When switching to
> console, I got my German keyboard, but in X11 in xterm I do not have
> any German character I need! Why? I configured in XFree the right keyboard
> but this won't work correct because I do not have "a, "o, "u and the other
> characters. I have had these problems under XFree 4 also and especially in
> conjunction with FreeBSD.
>
> TERM is set to xterm-color ... are there other environment variables which
> are involved?
LOCALE, I believe. You need to set it to "de" or something like
that (you may need "de_CH" or "de_DE" -- have a look in
/usr/share/locale). By default, it's "C", which is a synonym for US
English.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer
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