Bash now works with é, but not vi, grep, etc

[Darius dot Clynes at cec dot eu dot int]

(I will write in English for others on this list, thanks Michel)
 
Indeed, I made a directory /home/myusername 
and created the file .inputrc containing,: 
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
and then restarted cygwin.
Yes, now the beautiful letters é and è came out in bash, when typed. 
However, I still haven't gotten vi or vim to accept or display é etc. 
Neither does grep, and probably others. 
Even though I set the environment variable 
export LANG=fr_BE.iso8859-1 

However, 
Interesting note and clue perhaps, if I run xterm, and then 
suddenly inside xterm, vi and grep 
etc, now show these characters é without problem! 
What is vi getting when xterm starts that it is not getting 
under bash, what is grep getting under xterm that it is not getting 
under bash? 
Any suggestions as to how to get vi to translate these characters é
correctly 
while running vi directly under bash. I have waded through the vi
documentation 
and I can't seem to get anywhere, there must be some simple command 
somewhere to set the locale (charset). But WHERE and WHAT? 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Michel Debar [mailto:michel.debar@fundp.ac.be]
	Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 8:54 AM
	To: CLYNES Darius (SCIC)
	Subject: Re: How do you get accent characters like é and è in bash
and vi 
	
	Bonjour,
	
	je suis loin d'être expert en cygwin, mais je peux néanmoins vous
apporter une aide modeste :
	
	Pour Bash
	créez un fichier .inputrc contenant ce qui suit :
	
	set meta-flag on
	set convert-meta off
	set output-meta on
	
	et installez le dans le répertoire c:/cygwin/home/loginusername
	dans mon cas : c:/cygwin/home/mdebar
	
	Pour tcsh (si vous l'utilisez)
	Avec mon clavier azerfy français, je donne à tcsh la commande 
	
	setenv LANG fr_BE.iso8859-1 
	
	Cordialement, Michel Debar
	
	
	
	
	At 22:16 13/03/2001 +0100, you wrote:
		I am working with some sources that contain "international"
		characters used in languages other than english, 
		(typically french)
		
		Vi interprets sources from unix with accents like é and è 
		strangely. Windiff and windows programs like notepad
		see the same sources from unix with no problem.
		
		What is happening? Is there a setting in bash or vi
		that I need to make, keyboard or locale etc?
		
		If so how do I do that? Anybody know? 
		
		PS. é in expérience, shows up as expÚrience
		è in interprète, shows up as interprÞte 
		
		here are few other examples:
		
		Avez-vous dÚjÓ travaillÚ en tant qu'interprÞte
		Quelle expÚrience professionnelle d'interprÞte avez-vous
		PrÚcisez le nombre de jours d'interprÚtation prestÚs.
		Avez-vous dÚjÓ participÚ Ó un test professionnel ou Ó un
concours
		SÚjours importants Ó l'Útranger ? Indiquez les pays visitÚs,
l'annÚe
		
		Bash won't even respond to the keyboard character é (under 2
as lower case).
		
		Just beeps (belgian keyboard setting).
		
		
		Darius Clynes 
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		Belgium
		
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Darius Clynes 
Software Engineer
European Commission
Rue De Mot 24
Brussels, 1040 
Belgium

Office tel: +32 2   2962441
       fax: +32 2   2966025
Cell phone: +32 476 218850



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