Hi, this was a very helpful hint. Not only I've learned how to manipulate the values interactively now I know the reason:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:14:46PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote: > Just to be sure, type the following command: > bind -v : > $ bind -v > set blink-matching-paren on > set byte-oriented on > set completion-ignore-case off > set convert-meta off > set disable-completion off > set enable-keypad off > set expand-tilde off > set history-preserve-point off > set horizontal-scroll-mode off > set input-meta off > set mark-directories on > set mark-modified-lines off > set mark-symlinked-directories off > set match-hidden-files on > set meta-flag off > set output-meta on This was set to 'off' here though it is turned on in the .inputrc. I don't know why .inputrc doesn't work but this is another issue. I've turned it on in .bashrc using the syntax documented below and äöü and € are shown fine on the commandline. > That's my settings... and it works from whitin console and PuTTY. > By the way, You can set the variables without using .inputrc eg. by > bind 'set meta-flag on' Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG -- 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/
