pi-rat Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Hello! I am just trying to set up Armbian Buster on my Banana Pi and I am experiencing a strange problem with the keyboard settings: I choose de-UTF8 for system wide locale and system wide language, I set the keyboard to German, but still I couldn't type umlaute (öäü). If I typed "ä", nothing happens. If I typed "ü", it retrieved commands from the bash history, that I typed in earlier. If I typed ö", the input line displayed (arg: 6) After long search I finally found a kind of solution: if I uncomment this line in /etc/inputrc: # set convert-meta off I can type "öäü", but now I also can delete as many characters from the prompt as I typed in, when I press BACKSPACE. For example the normal prompt says root@bananapi:~# Next I type "äöü" root@bananapi:~#öäü Now, when I type BACKSPACE 5 times, the prompt looks like this: root@bananapi: If I type "öäü" again, and press BACKSPACE 3 times, the line looks like this: root@banana This is funny, but at least the "umlaute" are working now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frauhottelmann Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 You should probably set your locales manualy. At least it's what I had to so, because dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration is buggy Check the output of locale and set everything to de_DE.UTF-8: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Locales_unter_Ubuntu_konfigurieren It should then work without # set convert-meta off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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