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> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:20:35 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> If I add the following lines to djgpp.env
> 
> +LANG=de
> +LANGUAGE=de,en
> 
> then I _do_ get German text (e.g., from `sed --version'), but the
> umlauted and ess-tzett chars are incorrectly mapped on my screen
> under CP437.  These chars _are_ available in the upper half of CP437,
> however.

Doesn't LANGUAGE=de mean codepage 850 rather than 437?

I seem to vaguely recall something about you being able to tell
libiconv which encoding you need, something like LANGUAGE=de.cp437 or
some such.  Does it work?