Re: No Umlauts on console with Kernel 2.6.26

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>]

On 2010-02-06 11:17 +0100, Til Schubbe wrote:

> I upgraded a Lenny from Kernel 2.6.18-6-486 to 2.6.26-2-486.
> Booting with 2.6.26 I dont get any characters displayed by
> pressing German umlaut-keys on the console. X works fine.
>
> So I did a
> # dpkg-reconfigure console-data
> and set it to 'pc qwertz German latin1 - no dead keys'. Now
> pushing an umlaut-key generates 2 characters. First a capital 'A',
> and then a special character. But I don't get German umlauts.

I suspect it's rather Ã, e.g. you're seeing "ä" instead of "ä".

> Umlauts still work when I reboot with Kernel 2.6.18.

I think the 2.6.26 kernel uses UTF-8 by default which would explain the
discrepancy.

> Do I have to add something to /etc/console, boottime* etc.?
>
> What else do I have to do to get my umlauts back with 2.6.26?

Check /etc/default/locale, /etc/environment and your shell
initialization files for locale settings.  Generally I would recommend
to switch to a UTF-8 locale now, the utf8-migration-tool package can
help you with the transition.

Sven


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