Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:49:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Soenke Ufen <Soenke_Ufen AT kruemel DOT org>
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Subject: Re: German Keyboard again, the paragraph-sign
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Soenke Ufen wrote:

> I can't get the sign '^U' (ASCII 245) on a keyboard with a german layout.  
> ALT-2-4-5 works, but bash and emacs won't show it by pressing <shift-3> as  
> supposed.

Emacs doesn't currently support the German keyboard layout directly.
If you want to add that support, please generate a struct
dos_keyboard_map variable as appropriate for your keyboard (look
around line 1500 in the file src/msdos.c in the Emacs sources for the
details) and send it to me.

You don't say what version of Emacs do you use.  If that's Emacs 20.5,
there are additional considerations for typing non-ASCII characters.
For example, you can type Latin-1 characters without your keyboard
supporting them, by using a special Input Method.

As for Bash, didn't you say a few months ago that with the same
~/.inputrc settings as you cite in your present message you get to
see all the 8-bit Latin-1 characters?  What's changed since then?