I installed Debian 9.6 with english as the language, and locale settings (incl. keyboard) as finnish. All works fine in desktop apps e.g. Chromium, but the keys "ä", "ö" and "å" don't work in Konsole, xterm, uxterm or rxvt. Otherwise, the keymap works as it should.
In xterm, uxterm and rxvt, these keys just do nothing. In Konsole, "ö" key gives me an "(arg: 6) " prompt.
That is, if I start them from the KDE menu. If I start xterm (or Konsole) from Konsole, the keys work. Likewise if I do "su" in any of the terminal emulators.
This doesn't seem to depend on the environmental variables I get by running locale
. The output is initially as follows:
jonni@jlehtira:~$ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
LANG=sms_FI.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sms_FI.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
If I do su jonni
, then I see
jonni@jlehtira:~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
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=
However, just copy-pasting these environment variables to a newly-opened shell doesn't change anything. Also I wonder where the heck did sms_FI come from anyway.
localedef -f UTF-8 -i fi_FI ./fi_FI.UTF-8