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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:55:52 +0100
From: of <Olaf DOT Foellinger AT bln DOT sesa DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:33:58PM +0100, Mikka wrote:
> Hi Olaf,
> 
> > I have trouble to show german umlauts in bash command line in rxvt.
> > All I get are the following values:
> 
> > $ \344\366\374
> > bash: äöü: command not found
> > [...]
> 
> I once had similar troubles, I'll paste you my settings.
> First, the relevant lines in my .inputrc ($HOME) read:
> 
> set convert-meta off
> set input-meta on
> set meta-flag on
> set output-meta on
> 
> 
> Furthermore, I've alias'd ls to the following:
> 
> alias ls='ls      --color=auto --show-control-chars'
> alias ll='ls -l   --color=auto --show-control-chars'
>       etc.
> 
> Notice the "--show-control-chars" here.
> 
> 
> I usually call rxvt.exe this way:
> 
> c:\Cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash.exe --login
> 
> set termencoding=latin1
> 
> Now, umlauts äöüæåø... should be enabled in VIM, too.

Does vim show the euro-sign € right ?
 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

-- 
Olaf Föllinger
Berater 
S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG


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