On Sep 8, Brian C. White wrote > The following message is a list of items to be completed for the upcoming > releases of Debian GNU/Linux. If something is missing, incorrect, or you want > to take responsibility for one or more items, please send email to: > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> - configuring so non-ASCII characters work (???) [9] s|???|debian-i18n@lists.debian.org| probably. > 9 - One of the things that most people outside the US and UK have to deal > with is configuring everything so that non-ASCII characters and other > locale specific stuff works right. For example, bash needs a ~/.inputrc > so that you write едц on the command line, instead of getting > beeps. Emacs needs some other stuff. -- Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> Please add: | There is a mailing list for internationalization issues in Debian: | debian-i18n@lists.debian.org . This list is used e.g. for the Debian | Keyboard Configuration Project | (http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-kbd/) which | amongst other things, deals with providing an easy way to input non-ASCII | characters. On Sep 25, Guy Maor wrote > I've just uploaded readline 2.1-6 which will try /etc/inputrc if > ~/.inputrc does not exist. Great. The downside is, it doesn't help in dealing with the problem Lars noted, as libreadline isn't 8-bit clean by default. Please provide a default /etc/inputrc that is 8-bit clean, as explained in the the ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ (ftp://ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/pub/8bit/FAQ-ISO-8859-1): |14.1 bash |You need version 1.13 or higher and set the locale correctly (see |section 3). Also, to configure the `readline' input function of bash |to handle 8 bit characters correctly, you have to set some environment |variables in the readline startup file .inputrc: |------------------------------------------------------- |set meta-flag On |set convert-meta Off |set output-meta On |------------------------------------------------------- | |Before bash version 1.13, bash used the eighth bit of characters to mark |whether or not they were quoted when performing word expansions. While |this was not a problem in a 7-bit US-ASCII environment, this was a major |restriction for users working in a non-English environment. | |These readline variables have the following meaning (and default |values): | meta-flag (Off) | If set to On, readline will enable eight-bit input (that is, | it will not strip the high bit from the characters it reads), | regardless of what the terminal claims it can support. | convert-meta (On) | If set to On, readline will convert characters with the eighth | bit set to an ASCII key sequence by stripping the eighth bit | and prepending an escape character (in effect, using escape as | the meta prefix). | output-meta (Off) | If set to On, readline will display characters with the eighth | bit set directly rather than as a meta-prefixed escape sequence. -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
