Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:13:30 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Dieter Buerssner cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: bash 2.03 / german umlauts In-Reply-To: <200003141124.NAA06080@is.elta.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id JAA01324 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > There must be a misunderstanding. I cannot get German characters > with the Alt-numeric method in bash (but I can get them using the > bioskey(0)). But I do hear a beep in bash when I type the German > characters either directly or by using the Alt-nnn method in bash. I > think Sven mentioned, that he does not hear the beep. Yes, in Sven's case there is no beep. And that is what puzzles me: why the difference? I can explain the beeps, but not lack thereof. So there's no misunderstanding. It would be interesting to see what does your program yield on Sven's system. > BTW, the German keys are not special here. To get the french > accented letter è I have to type ` followed by e. Yes, the issue is Latin-1 characters with the 8th bit set, not German characters specifically. > This won't work > with bash, but will work with bioskey(0) (bioskey reports one > key for the two keystrokes, as you would expect it. I think I explained elsewhere why Bash beeps: it has its own ideas about the 8th bit. But that doesn't explain the lack of any effect on Sven's system, which is what I was trying to understand. > My setup is the almost same, as the setup Sven described, with the > only difference, that I use codepage 850, and he uses 437. But > that should not matter. And yet the two systems do behave differently. I wonder why.