On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > That's got nothing to do with the keymap (which is fine.) > > Two things are important: > > 1) in /etc/inputrc set 'convert-meta off' must be uncommented > (it maybe by default in 2.2r1, it wasn't in tc3. The metakey > still works fine, BTW) > > 2) The environment variable 'LANG' must be set to, i.e., 'de_DE', > which also lets > > LC_CTYPE (the culprit) > LC_NUMERIC > LC_TIME > LC_COLLATE > LC_MONETARY > LC_MESSAGES > > default to 'de_DE'. If you're like me you'll like to override > at least LC_MESSAGES back to 'en_US'.
Only 2) is important. If you set the locale properly you don't have to change /etc/inputrc at all.