Character encoding

Hallo. I have a Problem with the Character encoding in KDE3.5. I am from germany and we have some nice Letters like ä,ö,ü ... When i go to tty1 with "ctrl+alt+1" and "mkdir testäordner" jump back into KDE an look in my home Directory, the new Directory is written like this: "testäordner". I hope someone can help me. Jochen Vortkamp -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02