Localization

Although many linux distributions are preconfigured for various locales, they may need further user customization to support the desired features.

1. Generate an US locale with support for German characters:

$ localedef -c -i en_US -f ISO-8859-15 en_US.ISO-8859-15

1. Setup an US locale with support for German characters in the environment

  export LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-15"
  export LANGUAGE="${LANG}"
  export LC_TYPE="de_DE@euro"

(This assumes that the appropriate locale is either installed by default or was manually generated.)

1. Configure XTerm to correctly display the Euro character:

$ xterm -font -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15

1. Choose an Euro aware font for text consoles:

$ setfont lat9w-16