Egor: 
Thanks for the hint. I browsed the manual for readline(3) and for 
/etc/inputrc, but found nothing wrong with it. I can enter umlauts in all 
other programs and from the bash command-line - only in mysql they don't 
work. Where else might I look for the source of the problem?

s.m.


Am Donnerstag, 21. März 2002 16:44 schrieben Sie:
> sascha,
> Wednesday, March 20, 2002, 12:52:41 PM, you wrote:
>
> sm> Am Mittwoch, 20. März 2002 11:24 schrieben Sie:
> sm> > I just installed mysql fresh out of the box on a fresh SuSE linux
> 7.1. sm> > mysql does not let me enter german umlauts, though. I tried to
> start it sm> > with "mysql --default-character-set=latin_de", but it
> complained about sm> > the character sets not being installed. Then I
> installed the mysql sm> > server, which in turn installs the character
> sets. latin_de is not sm> > included, though. I tried it with "mysql
> --default-character-set=german1" sm> > instead. No luck.
> sm>
> sm> Was meinst Du mit "does not let me enter"?  Blockieren die
> sm> entsprechenden Tasten?  Erscheint nichts auf dem Bildschirm?  Gibt es
> sm> irgendeine Fehlermeldung?  Liefert MySQL bei einem SELECT das Falsche
> sm> zurück?
>
> sm> keystrokes with umlauts do not have any echo on the screen. batch input
> (text sm> files with sql statements with umlauts redirected to mysql) do
> not insert sm> umlauts into the database (but the rest of the text, so that
> the words are sm> mis-spelt). there is no error message. select statements
> contain any umlauts sm> in the database, though, and I can enter umlauts
> into the database using sm> other clients than mysql.
>
> Looks like it's a question of readline/local, it's not a MySQL
> problem.
>
> sm> s.m.

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