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fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

äöü not displayed in konqueror

i already searched the forums but didn't find a solution for this:
in konqueror and licq etc i can't get german characters like ö ä ü.
this is in my rc.conf:

LOCALE="en_EN.utf8"
KEYMAP="de-latin1"

and this in my locale.gen

en_US.UTF-8     UTF-8
en_US   ISO-8859-1

i want to have an "english environment" but beeing able to draw these characters at the same time!
any ideas?

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

The rc.conf stuff is for the console. For X, you'll need to change the keyboard layout in xorg.conf. Setting :

 Option "XkbLayout" "de"

in the keyboard section will do it (unless "de" is not the correct option).

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

it was already there...

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i installed the german package for kde kde-i18n-de  with no success!

tabasko

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2006-05-28

Posts: 4

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

I too have same kind of problem with finnish "ö ä å" with konqueror and opera.
I have kde-i18n-fi installed and Option "XkbLayout" "fi" but still
In gnome all works fine..

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

Perhaps you should generate the de-locales (even if you use only en_EN.utf8)

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fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

actually these characters do appear if i create a new file on my linux partition but no on my mounted vfat drive and in licq.
adding de_DE.utf8 to my locales doesn't change that.

headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

Hello,

I got the same problem since .. well since I installed Arch a couple of weeks ago. Odd.. could be broken.

fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

actually i fixed it by changing the mount options for my harddisk and changing the language settings in licq

headhunter

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Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 38

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

What did you change on your mount options? I am loading ext3 disks.. can I set the encoding to use there at all? And why would I want this when there is UTF8?

TheGrudge

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Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 206

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Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

I had the same problem, but then I rerun locale-gen and the problem was fixed...

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fdrebin

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Registered: 2005-04-25

Posts: 152

Re: äöü not displayed in konqueror

i think it was somehting with iocharset=iso... or something - not on my linux machine right now