bash/readline and .inputrc

Dr. Volker Zell vzell@de.oracle.com
Wed Apr 22 20:23:00 GMT 1998


Hi

    Anon> It appears that the readline library in bash is not reading
    Anon> my ~/.inputrc file (b19.1). I've seen this problem asked a
    Anon> couple of other times in the mailing list archives, but no
    Anon> answer.

For me the original b19 bash is reading the ~/.inputrc
I finally have found the solution to make Bash 8 bit clean.
Just add the following lines to ~/.inputrc

# Make Bash 8bit clean
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

Now all the german umlauts and ss are working fine.


Ciao
  Volker

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