International characters

["debian@home.se" <debian@home.se>]

Thanks for all help,

regarding "international characters for the swedish language". It seems to
be more than one solution to the problem. The first one is:

export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.iso-8859-1

insert this line in /etc/profile. And, all users on the system will been
able to use the swedish characters.

And, the second solution is:

set convert-meta off
set input-meta on
set output-meta on

insert these lines in /etc/inputrc. And, it works as well.

However, are there any advantages/disadvantages using the first or the
second method?

My system already had the "set input-meta on" and "set output-meta on" in
the /etc/inputrc, but the "set convert-meta off" was not activated. Why?

Christian Ericsson