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maystorm

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Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Umlaute in Terminal?

I just checked out the terminal emulator 'Terminal' which comes with Xfce and I decided that it's worth replacing Aterm which I used until now. 

However, how do I enable umlaute and other 8-bit special characters? I cannot enter them and they are only shown as question marks when displaying them.

TIA!

[Edit]: Changed the title to SOLVED.

dStulle

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Registered: 2007-04-14

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Umlaute in Terminal?

wich version of Terminal do you have? ($ Terminal -v)

what locale do you have set? ($ locale)

maystorm

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Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Umlaute in Terminal?

'$ Terminal -v' gives:

Terminal 0.2.6 (Xfce 4.4.0)

Copyright (c) 2003-2007
        os-cillation e.K. All rights reserved.

Written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.

Built with Gtk+-2.10.9, running with Gtk+-2.10.9.

'$ locale' gives:

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

So I guess it has something to do with my locale settings?

Jellybean

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Registered: 2007-02-17

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] Umlaute in Terminal?

This is my output of locale and I can type "umlaut" I think (if you mean ö and ü). So you could try to change to that. (How I don't know...)

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_NO:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

maystorm

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Registered: 2007-04-05

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Umlaute in Terminal?

That's it. I've set:

LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LANG="de_DE@euro"

in one of my configuration files which are loaded at start-up (it's '/etc/env.d/02locale' for Gentoo) and I get all the Umlauts (e.g. ä, ö, ü, ß).

Now I just need to check which of the various LC_* variables is responsible for this behaviour as LC_ALL overrides all individual ones.

Thanks for pointing me into the right direction!