On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 19:31:57 +0100, Stefan Gundel wrote: > On my hamm installation I get only beeps when pressing the diaresis keys > on my german keyboard
In the shell, I presume? You'll need to set some environment variables to be able to input 8-bit characters directly. Try if setting LC_CTYPE to en_US.iso-8859-1 makes a difference. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan