Hi!

I'm just installing the latest version of Slackware on a Sony Vaio FX-401. When I'm selecting any of the German keyboard maps (qwertz/de.map, qwertz/de-latin1.map or qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map) and test it when given the chance to right there it has the correct keyboard-mapping for the special characters accessible with shift+anynumber, but the Umlaute (whatever that translates to... the vocals with the two cute little dots over them...?) won't show up but wrong characters instead.

Anybody had any experiences with this so far?

in the keyboard section in /etc/X11/Xorg, i think you should have something like this:

or:
I thought you were abandoning Umlaute and you would use ae,ue,oe instead.
Is this something that will happen in the future or is this completely untrue?

I didn't get that far yet, I just finished installing Slack and logged in for the very first time this minute

I'll look up that file and check out the settings though, thanks!

And uhm, I never heard anything about Umlauts getting abandoned anytime soon, I guess that's a hoax...

well you mean the terminal. Well search the net. I found this page:
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Howt...e-HOWTO-4.html
For greek support In X-windows i also had to use also LC_CTYPE=el_GR, and for the console besides picking the correct keyboard map and font, I had to send some funny escape characters to the terminal: echo -e "\033(K"
but i don't know if you need any of this for German. I need to have a dual lay-out keyboard and change
layout (us+gr) with Alt+Shift. You obviously need to have only German layout since you can write English with
a German keyboard (the English letters/symbols are a subset of the German letters/symbols).

Also : In case you need to change those things, the keyboard map you picked is in /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap and the default console font is in /etc/rc.d/rc.fonts