RE: 1.3.2: bash: Swedish characters not displayed (beeps instead)

[david dot prather at telelogic dot com]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:starksb@ebi.ac.uk]
> > This is a bash, or rather readline configuration problem.. 
> mainly try to put 
> > 
> > # Make Bash 8bit clean
> > set meta-flag on
> > set convert-meta off
> > set output-meta on
> > 
> > into your ~/.inputrc
> 
> I've added this to the FAQ: "Why don't international (8-bit)
> characters work?" currently at
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC41>.
> 
> I cheated and put 8-bit characters directly in the HTML.  Is this a
> problem?  My copy of Netscape doesn't seem to mind.  Could people have
> a look and report if it's a problem with their browser?  (No need to
> respond if it works fine.)

I haven't looked to see which encoding you have in your html page but if you
need the page to be ASCII use these entities:

&pound;&aring;&auml;&ouml;

Cheers,
David

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