non-'us-ascii' characters again...

[Guilherme Soares Zahn <gzahn@cnen.gov.br>]

Hi

    I'm really puzzled this time...

    As I said in a previous message, when I try to enter non-'us-ascii'
characters on an xterm all I get are escape sequences like \350 and
such... Well, despite all the help I could get, this hasn't changed
(even with my ~/.inputrc and ~/.bashrc including all suggested lines)...
OK, but today I did a test I should have done before and... for root,
who hasn't got any of those lines in his ~/.inputrc (the file doens't
even exist) or ~/.bashrc...

    I tried to take a look on /etc/inputrc and /etc/profile, but only to
find that:

/etc/inputrc:
set input_meta on
set output_meta on

/etc/profile (stripping all the unrelated lines):
LESSCHARSET=latin1

OK... how can that be? It seems I'll have to comment all those lines you
(and the docs) suggested to put on my ~/.bashrc and ~/.inputrc, but can
anyone tell me why is this so?

Also... I was told that there shall be a problem with my keytable, as it
converts double quotes to \250 (half size dbl quotes)... How can I
correct that? This is REALLY important...

[]'s

Guilherme Zahn