encoding problems

[Frode M. Døving]

Try to run:
'sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales' and choose a non-utf8 locale as your default.

Just my 5c.

- Frode

Mandag 20 mars 2006 20:05, skrev Mathias Panzenböck:
> I'm using Kubuntu 5.10 and updatet with apt-get update && apt-get
> upgrade today.
>
> Since installing, I have big problems with character encodings. I'm from
> austria, so my system is german. It seemes that all text files will be   
> written in UTF-8, independend of what I configure. In each program (vim,
> gvim, kwrite, kile, ...). But the editor it self thinks it is
> latin1/iso-8859-1 (what I whant it to be). So it's imposible to write a
> latex document on kubuntu.
>
> Also the encoding in the shell is corrupted. My i18ned version of vim
> don't shows in the statusline in insert mode 'Einfügen'. Instead of the
> 'ü' there is just a box.
>
> I need to write a LaTeX document for university and I need to use umlauts.
>
> Thanks for any help, panzi