German setup for XFree86

[Reinhard Karcher]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:03:55PM +0200, Jörg Pleumann wrote
> (2) I used setxkbdmap to achieve German keyboard layout, but how do I tell
> my
> bash to actually print the German umlaut characters? Is there a way to put
> the bash into "8 bit" mode?
> 

I created an .inputrc file in my homedirectory:
set output-meta On   # to show 8-bit characters
set convert-meta Off # to show it as character, not the octal reprentation


Reinhard

PS: search the man page for bash and read the chapter concerning readline.