On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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?
$ zsh \[\e]0;\l \w\007\n\t \[\e[36m\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] zsh: command not found: \M-d\M-v\M-| Changes the problem fron shell to rsponse. > > 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. The file is sourced, without this it wouldn't show the escaped sequences. > 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. Final goal is to show the € character rigth in vi and mutt. So I thought the shell is a good start. Is it? Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG Alt-Moabit 91a D-10559 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 390722 -291 Fax: +49 30 390722 -222 Mobil: +49 173 6227080 http://www.sesa.de mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/