[SOLVED] xbian ssh german keyboard support

[mk01]

@p.falk,

if we are still referring to terminal access (not direct console access), then for very little is XBian responsible.

console access needs proper font configuration to display characters. to type them, proper keyboard layout needs to be set. but for remote access you receive only codes. displaying them is on your local terminal program and OS.

as you can see from next screen shot - it is Ubuntu, gnome term and ssh into XBian even with en_US locale running. I did nothing else as added German keyboard layout and logged into XBian.

btw: this is locale on Ubuntu:

Code:

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

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@p.falk

still, I remember a guy from spain who reported your case for Beta2, but it was related to Debian 7.2 updates. part of this '?' was also perl throwing errors about missing LC_CTYPE setting etc.

both are specifically fixed in xbian-update 1.0.2-11d which is in staging repo, but safe for install. or you can just create

/etc/profile.d/xbian-locale.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh

[ -e /etc/default/locale ] && . /etc/default/locale
export LC_CTYPE=C
[ -n "$LANG" ] && export LC_ALL=$LANG

then logout and login again.
sorry, I didn't remember sooner. if you confirm (even better by installing whole xbian-update at least with the 11d version, I will push from staging to stable. among other things the 11d is also solving the OOM issue with dpkg and 256models. this should really go out.