Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >this appeared when exchanging files with windows-users..... they are able to >use the full isolatin charset when creating filenames, i can't... quite >frustrating, i looked at the bash manpage, but could find nothing about the >ability to use the iso-latin charset on the shell in general.... >it is surely a faq, but i didn't found correct pointers on the solution...
Add the following two lines to /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc: set input-meta on set output-meta on Adding these might help too, though I haven't needed them: set meta-flag on set convert-meta off Read /etc/inputrc and "man readline" or "info readline" for details. Just setting your locale ("export LANG=fr") might also be enough, I'm not sure. -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]