German Locale and Keymaps, SSH

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alpha-lemming

Hello,

I installed FreeBSD 8.1 Release recently with a fairly standard configuration and US keymap.

I now have a need to use German umlaut characters, so I plugged a German USB Keyboard into my local machine, set the local input language to German and logged in (per SSH) to the FreeBSD box.
Doing this:

Code: 
export LANG=de_DE.ISO8859-1

allows existing German filenames to be displayed properly, but I can't type any special characters; the umlaut characters seem to be mapped to arrows or something.
So I tried:

Code: 
cd /usr/share/syscon/keymaps && kbdcontrol -l german.iso.kbd

and got:

Code: 
kbdcontrol: setting keymap: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I also tried setting the keymap to "German ISO" from sysinstall, but still no joy.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
 
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