From: Jochen Roderburg <a0045 AT rondy DOT rrz DOT Uni-Koeln DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: bash 2.03 / german umlauts
Date: 14 Mar 2000 16:16:31 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

> 
> I think that's because Bash and GDB both use the readline library,
> which by default interpret the 8th bit as the Meta bit.  I don't know
> if you can turn that off.
> 

This may be an important point, *if* the bash port really uses readline.
Under Unix I have the following definitions
(in the .inputrc file, which is the configuration file for readline):

set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

I don't have the readline documentation at hand, so I can't tell the
exact meaning of each line, but the three together allow usage of 
8-bit characters in bash command lines.

Perhaps this works also in the DJGPP bash.
There is certainly someone in this newsgroup, who knows, where the
equivalent file is located under DJGPP.

Best Regards,

Jochen Roderburg
Regional Computing Center
University of Cologne
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