[gentoo-amd64] Umlaut character handling...

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   On my AMD64 machine (and possibly my 32-bit machines also) I have a
problem with handling of non-American characters. If I do an ls of a
directory I don't see the character, but rather see something like
this on the last entry:

mark@lightning ~/music/John Scofield $ ls -l
total 20
drwxrwxrwx  2 500 500 4096 Apr  4 11:37 EnRoute
drwxrwxrwx  2 500 500 4096 Apr  4 11:37 Flat Out
drwxrwxrwx  2 500 500 4096 Apr  4 11:37 Hand Jive
drwxrwxrwx  2 500 500 4096 Apr  4 11:37 I Can See Your House From Here
drwxrwxrwx  2 500 500 4096 Apr  4 11:37 ??berjam
mark@lightning ~/music/John Scofield $

where the last entry should be a capital U with an umlaut over it.
Whatever causes this also causes some programs I'm running to freak
out.

However, it's not a total loss as within Gnome's browser I do see the
correct name:

Überjam

   What is it waht effects this sort of thing and how do I make my
system self consistent so that programs aren't crashing on me?

Thanks,
Mark

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