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: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:37:23 +0200 From: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: german characters Message-ID: <20040405103722.GA2372@bln.sesa.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000501c417db$a124d9c0$4268a0a0@amatec.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000501c417db$a124d9c0$4268a0a0@amatec.local> X-Request-PGP: http://www.foellinger.de/olaf.foellinger.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 -- 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/