> > 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


I don't exactly know WHAT i made, but some of this things worked in a strange way...
I think the right thing was, to set LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 in the ~/.bashrc

good night
Jochen Vortkamp
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