From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 9:37: 9 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 09:37:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from browning.pennasoft.com (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2556A37B400; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:37:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by browning.pennasoft.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB4HZiW00399; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:35:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:35:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna Sender: behanna@zbzoom.net Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keyboard settings curiosity In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net Remove "bogus" before responding. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message