Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Markebo Subject: Re: shell display latin char. like this '\351' Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:34:30 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <3EAFA9FA.7040905@imag.fr> <3EAFB553.7040904@imag.fr> <3EAFF8F5.9090401@imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7FgwTp96uqpXd9gEG6SZS+RUC0Y= | and when i type funny characters , it displays '\351' or '\352' ,....... Assuming it is in bash you type these *cough* wonderful *cough* characters ;-), making sure you have a ~/.inputrc file containing # Make Bash 8bit clean set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on Might fix it.. /Andy p.s. well I agree with you that the french characters might be funny, иаб and so on, while the swedish used дце are wonderful ;-) -- Don't walk in front of me, I might be unable to follow you. Don't walk after me, I might be unable to lead you. Just walk by my side and be my friend. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/