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Re: german characters


On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:22:09PM +0200, Markus R. wrote:
> Hi together,
> 
> I have read many articles in the newsgroup and studied the FAQ on the
> cygwin homepage to enable german characters in the bash. But I didn't
> find a solution.
> 
> I have a fresh cygwin install on my system. I have created a '.inputrc'
> in my home directory with the following entries:
> 
> set meta-flag on
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on
> 
> 
> the file permissions are read, write and execute for everybody (only
> for test purpose). Now when I open my bash I get '\366' for an 'ö'
> and '\344' for an 'ä' and so on. When I type 'cat' then I can enter
> german character 'ö' 'ä' and so on.
> 
> When I delete the .inputrc file then I can't see nothing when I type
> a german character like 'ö','ä' and so on. This seems for me that the
> .inputrc file is read by a bash execute.
> 
> Any ideas?? It's really confusing

How about http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01367.html and
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01367.html? Do they help?
They did it for me.
 
 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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