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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php