Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20030910221046.47701.qmail@web40312.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Lukasz Kosewski Subject: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello all, This subject seems misleadingly to have been flogged to death, when in fact, I have found nothing which can help me. I am trying to get accented characters, or special characters in general really, to display in my initial Cygwin bash shell window. I'm not even going to attempt things in X for now. Just simply attempting to get them to work in Bash is too much of a pain. I have added the lines: set mega-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on to my ~/.inputrc The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a folder with accents and umlauts, everything displays fine. With tab completion, I can complete the accented names. But I cannot TYPE them. No matter what key combinations I try, I cannot find any way to TYPE the special characters at the prompt. I cannot paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the window either, nothing happens when I try. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am using Windows 2000 with Cygwin overtop of it. Luke Kosewski __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- 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/