[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

[Johannes.Becker@hrz.uni-giessen.de]

> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Francis VIVAT wrote
> > If no .inputrc, pressing é makes a beep.
> > With my .inputrc, pressing é makes \351

The behaviour depends on using bash or sh.
Bash doesn't show umlauts while you type, but
shows umlauts in echo commands.

$ sh
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ echo äöü
äöü
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$ bash

g013@BE /
$ echo \344\366\374
äöü


Regards
  Johannes