Re: Bug#122845: What happened to compose? - further information
Joey Hess writes:
> Package: libreadline4
> Version: 4.2a-2
>
> Johann Spies wrote:
> > I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but
> > not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to solve it?
>
> I have the same problem, so it would seem that this is a problem
> specific to bash, or to readline. Hmm, it's readline, the compose key
> fails in other programs that use readline as well, producing just a beep
> no matter what character I try to input (I tried ¡, ä, á, ß, etc). It
> works fine in zsh, vim, xchat (gtk), etc. This is in an xterm.
yes, it is specific. See /etc/inputrc. convert-meta has to be turned
off.
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