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Howto: setting norwegian charset in debian

Monday, September 20th, 2004

One of the questions about linux I get most frequently is How do I get norwegian keys (æøå) to work in terminals and console in Debian?

Until very recently I couldn’t answer them. I dont use Debian on my desktop (I use Debian on servers), so I have never had that problem. So, today I sat down at a sparc machine at etjenesten, wich had Debian installed, and did not have norwegian keyset or locale. I decided to find out how to fix it, and fix it.

Here’s a howto

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