Unicode and NLS USE flags.
/etc/env.d/02locale:
LC_CTYPE=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_NUMERIC=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_TIME=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_COLLATE=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_MONETARY=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_MESSAGES=”en_US.UTF-8″
LC_PAPER=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_NAME=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_ADDRESS=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_TELEPHONE=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_MEASUREMENT=”de_DE.UTF-8″
LC_IDENTIFICATION=”de_DE.UTF-8″
/etc/conf.d/consolefont
consolefont=”lat0-16″
consoletranslation=”8859-15_to_uni”
/etc/conf.d/keymaps
KEYMAP=”de-latin1-nodeadkeys”
/etc/rc.conf
unicode=”YES”
env-update. Shit works.