Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:39:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 14 Mar 2000, Jochen Roderburg wrote:

> > I think that's because Bash and GDB both use the readline library,
> > which by default interpret the 8th bit as the Meta bit.  I don't know
> > if you can turn that off.
> 
> This may be an important point, *if* the bash port really uses readline.

Bash *does* use readline, it's in the Bash manual.

> Under Unix I have the following definitions
> (in the .inputrc file, which is the configuration file for readline):
> 
> set meta-flag on
> set convert-meta off
> set output-meta on

Thanks, this does work for me.  Previously, I used all of them except
the second one, so it didn't work.

But I'm not sure this will solve the problems of the original poster,
since in his case, Bash didn't respond at all to 8-bit characters.

> There is certainly someone in this newsgroup, who knows, where the
> equivalent file is located under DJGPP.

It's in the docs, so _everybody_ should know ;-).