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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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same problem here too!
sorry for my bad english
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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!
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Another update from me: Now the umlauts shown in KMail are corrupted - though I can still type them and stuff
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