For the FAQ: German Umlauts & bash in X11

[Harold L Hunt II]

Heinz,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I have included your suggestion in a new release
of the FAQ that I just posted.


To anyone else that has been making FAQ suggestions: please send them again.
My documentation build system is working again so I can quickly add items to
the FAQ now.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heinz Peter Hippenstiel [mailto:hhippenstiel@gmx.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 4:37 AM
> To: huntharo@msu.edu
> Subject: For the FAQ: German Umlauts & bash in X11
>
>
> Hi,
>
> could you add a little piece to th FAQ section 4.7?
>
> -----------------------------------
> 4.7. I have installed a modmap for my non-U.S. keyboard layout,
> but how do I
> get bash to display accents and/or umlauts?
>
> Add the following lines to .inputrc in your Cygwin home directory (e.g.
> /home/harold/):
> set meta-flag on
> set output-meta on # to show 8-bit characters
> set convert-meta off # to show it as character, not the octal
> representation
> # Mapping for german Umlauts
> "\M-a": "ä"
> "\M-A": "Ä"
> "\M-o": "ö"
> "\M-O": "Ö"
> "\M-u": "ü"
> "\M-U": "Ü"
> "\M-s": "ß"
> # (TODO: Mapping for accents?)
> -----------------------------------
>
> That will *really* make it. The Meta flags will only convert the input to
> \347 or something.
>
>
> Cheers, Heinz Peter 'HP' Hippenstiel
>