[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel update messed up console encoding

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Florian v. Savigny wrote:
>   > locale 
>   > should shown it to you
> 
> Thanks. $LANG and $LC_ALL are not set (i.e. locale simply shows
> "LANG=" and "LC_ALL=" with no values). All other LC_... variables are
> set to "POSIX".

I don't think that will work.  Here, locale says:

   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
   LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

So I suppose you need something like "de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro".  You need 
only set LANG and and LC_ALL.  The rest is derived automatically from 
those two.

To do this, edit the file /etc/env.d/02locale.  There should be only two 
lines in it:

   LC_ALL="de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro"
   LANG="de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro"

Substitute "ISO-8859-15" with whatever you're using.  After editing, run 
"env-update" as root.  Reboot (just to make sure) and try again.

I really recommend UTF-8 though:

   LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
   LANG="en_US.UTF-8"