Problems with accented characters in Cygwin

Problems with accented characters in Cygwin

[Lukasz Kosewski]

Hello all,

This subject seems misleadingly to have been flogged
to death, when in fact, I have found nothing which can
help me.

I am trying to get accented characters, or special
characters in general really, to display in my initial
Cygwin bash shell window.  I'm not even going to
attempt things in X for now.  Just simply attempting
to get them to work in Bash is too much of a pain.

I have added the lines:
set mega-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
to my ~/.inputrc

The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a
folder with accents and umlauts, everything displays
fine.  With tab completion, I can complete the
accented names.  But I cannot TYPE them.  No matter
what key combinations I try, I cannot find any way to
TYPE the special characters at the prompt.  I cannot
paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the window
either, nothing happens when I try.

Does anyone have any suggestions?  I am using Windows
2000 with Cygwin overtop of it.

Luke Kosewski

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Re: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

I suggest you use rxvt since the Cygwin "terminal" appers to be
broken for that. I don't know if it ever worked, but it never
did since I started with 1.3.10. I now use 1.5.3. I reported
it. See

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00048.html

and follow
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02230.html

, mainly Igor's replies:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02301.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02324.html

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:

> The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a folder
> with accents and umlauts, everything displays fine.  With tab
> completion, I can complete the accented names.  But I cannot
> TYPE them.  No matter what key combinations I try, I cannot
> find any way to TYPE the special characters at the prompt.
> I cannot paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the
> window either, nothing happens when I try.

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Re: Problems with accented characters in Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Since this referred to my replies, I should mention that newer versions of
Cygwin should allow pasting accented characters (sans the accents) to
console windows.
	Igor

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> I suggest you use rxvt since the Cygwin "terminal" appers to be
> broken for that. I don't know if it ever worked, but it never
> did since I started with 1.3.10. I now use 1.5.3. I reported
> it. See
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00048.html
>
> and follow
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02230.html
>
> , mainly Igor's replies:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02301.html
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02324.html
>
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
>
> > The characters DISPLAY fine, when I am doing ls on a folder
> > with accents and umlauts, everything displays fine.  With tab
> > completion, I can complete the accented names.  But I cannot
> > TYPE them.  No matter what key combinations I try, I cannot
> > find any way to TYPE the special characters at the prompt.
> > I cannot paste characters from notepad/mozilla into the
> > window either, nothing happens when I try.

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