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 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:39:09 +0100 From: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line Message-ID: <20040227123909.GE2068@bln.sesa.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040227084944.GQ2104@bln.sesa.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://www.foellinger.de/olaf.foellinger.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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? $ zsh \[\e]0;\l \w\007\n\t \[\e[36m\] \[\e[32m\]\u@\h\[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n$äöü zsh: command not found: \M-d\M-v\M-| Changes the problem fron shell to rsponse. > > 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. The file is sourced, without this it wouldn't show the escaped sequences. > 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. Final goal is to show the € character rigth in vi and mutt. So I thought the shell is a good start. Is it? Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG Alt-Moabit 91a D-10559 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 390722 -291 Fax: +49 30 390722 -222 Mobil: +49 173 6227080 http://www.sesa.de mailto: Olaf.Foellinger@sesa.de -- 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/