> I suppose you mean that /bin/sh can never ever show Umlaute, right?
> Then try to login to an account, which is using /bin/sh, but where the
> $HOME/.profile is not found (deleted, renamed, ...)! When I do this
> here, I *get* Umlaute with /bin/sh.

 Might have been changed lately. I never use Umlauts in UNIX shells,
and I still dont know what for you are using them? :-)

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