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headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

[localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

Hello,

how can I enable German umlauts in KDE applications?
They work fine in console and in GTK apps, just KDE makes problems .
Existing umlauts are not shown, and typing something like "äöüß" etc..  results in an odd character on screen.

I am using the DejaVu font for KDE, keyboard layout is set to German 104 Key PC.

Thanks for your help

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

Hi,
did you install the language pack for kde?

pacman -S kde-i18n-de

What font do you use with Gnome?
Also check in the /etc/rc.conf the Locale setting.

headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

Hello,

I have installed the kde-i18n package, though this is for text localisation only. Keyboard layouts are a standard kde feature.

I don't have Gnome installed, so I guess GTK is using the default-GTK fonts - whatever these may be in Arch

The rc.conf looks fine to me, here are the relevant parts:
LOCALE="de_DE.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de-latin1"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=

Is there anything wrong with this?

Besides rc.conf - is there another way in Arch Linux to modify the keyboard? Not to my knowledge, but who knows..

Thanks for answers

luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

For the keyboard setup you can check xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Option "XkbLayout"  "it"

under the "InputDevice" section
I use the terminus font for the konsole

pacman -S terminus-font

Try with these fonts.
You must enable the bitmap fonts to view them. See the dir /etc/fonts/conf.d
for informations.

headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

Hi!

My XkbLayout is set to "de". If i wouldn't have done this, then GTK would propably also have problems showing my precious umlauts.

Changing the Konsole font doesn't matter, as this problem affects all KDE, not just the konsole application.

iggy

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From: Germany, L.E. - Leipzig

Registered: 2004-10-17

Posts: 367

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

same problem here too!

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sorry for my bad english

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

same problem for me too
these characters are shown correctly in the konsole but not in konqueror
i would really like to get a solution for this!

headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

Re: [localisation] How to enable umlauts in KDE?

Another update from me: Now the umlauts shown in KMail are corrupted - though I can still type them and stuff