From: Soenke_Ufen AT kruemel DOT org (Soenke Ufen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: bash 2.03 / german umlauts Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:37:00 CET Organization: Kruemel Boks, Altenholz, Germany - +49-431-3292929 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <200003141128 DOT GAA23530 AT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p3e9be1ef.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (62.155.225.239) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 953184624 4308514 62.155.225.239 (16 [23622]) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Dieter wrote: d>There must be a misunderstanding. I cannot get German characters d>with the Alt-numeric method in bash (but I can get them using the d>bioskey(0)). as Jochen suggested in this thread simply put set meta-flag on set convert-meta off set output-meta on set input-meta on in your ${HOME}/_inputrc (or .inputrc) to get all characters with the eights bit set. d> But I do hear a beep in bash when I type the German d>characters either directly or by using the Alt-nnn method in bash. I d>think Sven mentioned, that he does not hear the beep. I think this is more a problem with my system than DJGPP-related. I tried to copy char 7 (bell) to stdout at the dos-prompt -- it didn't beep too. -- Tschau, Sönke.