> Jochen Vortkamp schrieb: > >>>> Hallo. > >>>> > >>>> I have a Problem with the Character encoding in KDE3.5. I am from > >> germany > >>>> and we have some nice Letters like ä,ö,ü ... > >>>> When i go to tty1 with "ctrl+alt+1" and "mkdir testäordner" jump > back > >>>> into KDE an look in my home Directory, the new Directory is written > >> like this: > >>>> "testäordner". > >>>> I hope someone can help me. > >>>> > >>>> Jochen Vortkamp > >>> P.S In the console under tty1 the Directory in written right > >> "testäordner" > >> > >> I'm also from Germany and once I had the same problem. I think this has > >> something > >> to do with your locale settings. Run > >> locale > >> in your tty1 and do the same in a console in KDE. Then compare the > results > >> and you > >> should see a difference I think. For example, "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" in > tty1 > >> and > >> "LANG=de_DE.ISO-****" in KDE. > >> > >> Stefan > > > > > > you are right. In tty1 it is "LANG=de_DE.UTF-8" and in the KDE console i > got this: > > > > jochen@jochen-laptop:~$ locale > > 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= > > > > > > how to fix it in KDE? > > > > > > Jochen Vortkamp > > > > That's interesting. I would have expected the other way around. > > Either your LANG variable is not set globally and KDE does not know it > or KDE resets the variable. > > To prevent the first situation I always set the LANG variable in > /etc/environment like this: > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > > If the problem still remains I'm not sure what to do. I know that you can > set KDE's default language via kcontrol under > "Regionaleinstellungen & ..."->"Land, Region & Sprache". But I'm unsure if > this option also affects "LANG". > > Good luck! > > Stefan Endrullis Strange. In "Regionaleinstellungen & ..."->"Land, Region & Sprache i switched all to "german" The "Select System Language" has no effect. Normaly it starts the "language-selecter-qt" But the pakage in the repo is for KDE4. Can Tim make the "language-selecter-qt" for kde3 available? Does somebody know, why KDE don't take the /etc/environment language? Jochen Vortkamp -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02