Thanks for your reply, but I've figured out the issue. The ^° key is just swapped with the <> key. Now if I need the > sign, I just have to use the ° sign and everything is working well along with the -l de.properties parameter.
As I have already mentioned on Windows it's working out-of-the-box, so I'm not assuming I need to change anything in the de.properties file, right?
Thanks,
David