Thank you Johnny, that worked. 

But now, the error messages are coming in German aswell.
Is there a way to keep messages in English, but display Umlauts ?

Another phenomenon is, that double tapping TAB (for tabcompletion), will
show Umlauts, without setting $LANG. But you can't tabcomplete, because of
the ?'s.
This works with bash and ksh.

$ ls
m?rchenprinz
$ rm <TAB> <TAB>
märchenprinz
$ rm 

Z.

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
> An: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.org>
> Kopie: current-users@netbsd.org
> Betreff: Re: Umlauts and FS
> Datum: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:08:14 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> 
> > Hello List,
> >
> > I'm using a German Keyboard Layout.
> > While typing Umlauts is fine, Files containing Umlauts are not
> Displayed.
> > They show Question Marks.
> >
> > $ touch märchenprinz
> > $ ls
> > m?rchenprinz
> > $
> >
> > Am I missing something ?
> 
> It was a while since I dug into this, but I think it depends on the locale
> settings. Try setting LANG to de_DE.ISO8859-1
> 
> 	Johnny
> 
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