Bug#389970: [Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#389970: console-setup: Can't use Danish special characters

[Anton Zinoviev]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:47:32PM +0200, Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> 
> This was actually not the case, $LANG was empty... (where is this set
> up, apart from just doing "export LANG=da_DK"?)

In /etc/default/locale there should be a line like this:

LANG=da_DK

In the older versions of Debian this was /etc/environment.

> There seem to be a unicode bug in the shell where when I type one of
> the chars, I can type 2 backspace and eventually delete the
> "thuehome:~$" part of the shell, but that is probably not a
> console-setup bug?

This is a bug in Linux and the Linux developers do not want to fix it. :-)

> Making this work seems rather complicated to me, not being familiar
> with the whole console architecture. Is there some package which I
> have failed to install which would have set it all up automatically
> for me?

I suppose if you choose Danish language in Debian installer most
things will be OK automatically.

You may want to install the package language-env:

apt-get install language-env

Then use as non-root the following command:

set-language-env

> ps: feel free to close the bug if you feel it is appropriate.

I think I can provide some information in the README files - both for
this and for the other bug.

Anton Zinoviev