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Old 07-04-2009
scottn scottn is offline Forum Advisor  
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Code:
LANG=es_ES
(I don't have a Spanish keyboard, but a German one and my LANG was en_US. I changed this to de_DE, and I was able to display German characters).

(this may vary depending on your OS, but have a look at /etc/gdm/locale)