8-bit characters anyone?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-03-22 21:07, Andreas Davour <ante at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
>
> I have an odd problem. I can't get any 8-bit characters to show up
> after an upgrade.
>
> On the console nothing happens after I run kbdmap and choose Swedish
> ISO-8859-1. It just beeps, and prints the non-Swedish characters like
> before.
>
> In KDE, after having added my own xmodmap to the .xinitrc file, I
> though that they might appear. No such luck. Even after setting the
> keyboard layout on Control Panel/Regional/Keyboard Layout to Swedish
> do they not appear.
>
> Oddly enough, in emacs everything looks like it should!
>
> What am I missing, and what didn't I do after the upgrade?

You have probably forgotten to set the locale related stuff correctly in
your environment.  What does the following in one of your shells?

	% env | grep LANG
	% env | grep LC_

- Giorgos