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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:23 +0100
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* 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


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