Bug 109560

Description of problem:

this is a bug that has been reported already 1 year ago. see bug
75982. i wanted to open a new bug here because this is really a major
annoyance for german users of fedora/redhat (and i guess it might as
well be the case for french/spanish/whatever users too, as i don't
believe that this problem is solely related to german umlauts...

fedora does not display german umlauts correctly. the solution to this
problem is editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n to user LANG="de_DE@euro"
instaed of LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

i did so for rh8 and rh9 and i still do it now but, as i see it, this
should be solved somehow. 

related to this problem is a general lack of i18n: 
- german spellchecking is not installed for openoffice
- mounting windows-shares via the "network server" button in the
start-menu brings the same problem. 

this should not be the case. where's the sense in including a nice
"one click to your windows-networked shares"-button if i still have to
do it by hand? (because all files with umlauts are not displayed
correctly)

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How reproducible:

install fedora core in german and do either:
- mount a fat32 share on the local computer (with files with umlauts
on it)
- create a new document in openoffice and try to do the spellchecking
for german
- mount a share on a windows-machine in your lan via the "network
servers" button

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