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Re: German setup for XFree86
- To: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: German setup for XFree86
- From: Reinhard Karcher <rkarcher at frey dot de>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:38:20 +0200
- References: <008101c0df9a$ff9f1ff0$f028d981@ls10pc50>
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:03:55PM +0200, Jörg Pleumann wrote
> (2) I used setxkbdmap to achieve German keyboard layout, but how do I tell
> my
> bash to actually print the German umlaut characters? Is there a way to put
> the bash into "8 bit" mode?
>
I created an .inputrc file in my homedirectory:
set output-meta On # to show 8-bit characters
set convert-meta Off # to show it as character, not the octal reprentation
Reinhard
PS: search the man page for bash and read the chapter concerning readline.