> I forgot to mention that you have to load new keyboard layout before it > takes effect. As in: > > kbd_mode -a > loadkeys /boot/default.kmap > or > kbd_mode -u > loadkeys /boot/default.kmap > Ok. I repeated it from the console with default.kmap from MicroSD saved from Knoppix. It´s just the file that initrd loads when booting. Results for ASCII and UTF-8 are the same as before for digits and chars. Problems arise for mue, euro sign and german ue ASCII fails to display the mue, euro is displays with a e and the ue isn´t displayed. 000000 b5 65 fc 000003 UTF-8 displays all 3 special characters and says: 000000 c2 b5 65 c3 bc 000005 Can you draw any conclusion form all that? -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/