On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Rui Santos wrote: > Sorry. It does work. I was issuing the command on bash, and not on cat. > So it works :)
Okay, good to hear it, so we're not completely lost :) So it's simply an application error, we need to fix bash. To make things work in bash, you'll need some of these. I don't know which ones are exactly needed, so the safest is to go for sure and do all of these: - A sufficiently recent readline and bash: at least 5.1/3.1, but rather 5.2/3.2, plus preferably the patches from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/{readline,bash} - A ~/.inputrc file or $INPUTRC pointing to a file that contains this: set meta-flag On set convert-meta Off set input-meta On set output-meta On IIRC bash 3.2 automatically chekcs /etc/inputrc too, but I'm not sure. - Have at least one UTF-8 locale, e.g. en_US.UTF-8 - Have your LANG variable point to that UTF-8 locale, e.g. execute "export LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in your startup stript prior to starting the interactive bash in which you'll be editing command line with accents. -- Egmont -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
