Just to be a little more helpful :) Have You set some evironmental INPUTRC to use some other file than ~/.inputrc? Or does bash not find Your homedir?
matthias ... > 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 > EUR are shown fine on the commandline. ... -- 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/