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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
- To: <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft
- From: Johannes dot Becker at hrz dot uni-giessen dot de
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 13:29:07 +0200
- References: <131c01c0e2a6$62a409e0$65ad34c1@cetp.ipsl.fr>
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Francis VIVAT wrote
> > If no .inputrc, pressing é makes a beep.
> > With my .inputrc, pressing é makes \351
The behaviour depends on using bash or sh.
Bash doesn't show umlauts while you type, but
shows umlauts in echo commands.
$ sh
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ echo äöü
äöü
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ bash
g013@BE /
$ echo \344\366\374
äöü
Regards
Johannes