special characters in netscape

[Peter Eisentraeger]

When I get messages in netscape messanger written in german I can read all special characters. But typing this characters is impossible for me. Characters mentioned are "odiaeresis", ascii 246, "adiaeresis" ascii 228, "udiaeresis" ascii 252 and "ssharp" ascii 223. Who can help?

[Alex Glennie]

Where and under what enviroment are you typing the characters ?

Under say hp-ux, Xwindows and in a CDE enviroment the first thing I'd do would be to export LANG=german
export KBD_LANG=german
stty -parenb -ixany -istrip cs8
/usr/bin/X11/hpterm -xrm HPterm*KeyboardLanguage:German &
in the case of typing in a hpterm

[Peter Eisentraeger]

Alex,

You made every effort. Your first suggestion
"export LANG=de_DE.iso88591" was the trick. I went through the patch list and all patches are already installed.

Thanks

[Alex Glennie]

No problems ... just happy it worked, nice to get something to work every now and again ;)