Troubles with Umlauts

[Tobias Radloff <caralus@gmx.de>]

Hi there,

I am having trouble using German Umlauts ('ä', 'ö', 'ü', 'ß' - I wonder if 
you see these characters correctly now) with Emacs 20.7. I installed Deli 
Linux (a Slackware derivate) on an old notebook, together with the 
emacs_nox package from slackware 7.1 (there is no X on the machine). 
Umlauts work perfectly in the terminal, vi, and other apps, only Emacs 
interprets them as 'v', 'd', '|', and so on.

I checked the FAQs on the internet, to no avail. Several different ways to 
edit the .emacs file did not work, including 'set-language-environment', 
'set-terminal-coding-system' and 'standard-display-european'. Now I am out 
of ideas.

The following variables are set:
LANG=de_DE
LC_CTYPE=de_DE
LC_ALL=de_DE
The stty parameters include -istrip and cs8.

Thanks for answers.
Tobias