How to use german umlaute in Mac os x X11 xterm

Question

I have a macbook pro with german keyboard layout. In the X11 xterm application, when I type umlaute like ä,ö,ü,ß, then they don't show up. And ß shows the history like the up-arrow. On the other hand if I start emacs in x11 (not in the xterm) then everything works fine.

How can I configure X11 xterm to type all characters?

And yes, I checked the "follow system keyboard layout" checkbox in the preferences panel.

Thanks, alex.

Answer 1

Hm, works on my box. What is your LC_CTYPE? Mine reads LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8, and i have checked .inputrc with no umlaut specialties found.

Answer 2

Hey, I just had the opposite problem... my X11 had been on German Umlaute for quite a while, and I didn't recall how I managed to do that. Now I am working all with QWERTY layout, so I wanted to remove the Umlaute again.

Seems I had a custom ~/.Xmodmap file that X11 was reading. After I removed this file, I had the English layout again. So probably you need to search for .Xmodmap and put an appropriate file in your home folder.