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.

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