Re: umlaut accents

[Jim McClosky <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

Manuel Hendel <Manuel.Hendel@easygolucky.de> wrote:

|> can anyone give me a hint wy I can't use ä,ö,ü in a shell. "less"
|> is also not able to show these letters. Where's the problem? What
|> do I have to look at to fix it?

I believe you can enable this by editing the file /etc/inputrc, which
controls the behaviour of readline. According to the instructions
there, if you uncomment the line:

set convert-meta off

you should be able to display umlaut accents.

I've not tried this myself though,

Jim