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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:23 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <20040227084944.GQ2104@bln.sesa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-148.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de * Olaf Föllinger (2004-02-27 09:49 +0100) > I have trouble to show german umlauts in bash command line in rxvt. What about zsh (or another shell) and the standard Cygwin Console? > I get are the following values: > > $ \344\366\374 > bash: äöü: command not found > > I have set the following in .inputrc > > $ less .inputrc > set input-meta on > set convert-meta off > set output-meta on This is the canonic way. Make sure that the file is sourced. But I have no problems here - although typing non-ascii characters in a shell doesn't make sense. The only use is showing files with ls or d - which is not a shell thing. Thorsten -- 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/