On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 05:55:59PM +0100, Lorint Hendschel wrote: > I cannot seem to type special French characters on the console (é, ç, â, > etc.). > > The keymap is correct (fr-latin0) and I have tried several fonts (with > setfont) > such as lat0*, lat1* > > It doesn't work with Bash (just a beep instead of the char). > It doesn't work with Emacs (when I type an accented character, something else > is displayed). > However, Vim displays them correctly. > > What can I do to fix that, apart from using Vim instead of, ahem... ;) > make shure you have
set convert-meta off in /etc/inputrc and LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-15 (or whatever you need - see locale) hth martin -- 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0
