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Re: 1.5.25-15: Why my $INITRC "set convert-meta off" seems to fail?


2009/7/27 Rodion Gorkovenko:
> I am still try to get over my problem with ASCII 8-bit characters translation. I now know about ~/.initrc file, readline, bind - bit more.
>
> But it still does not work. Look here:
>
> My ~/.initrc contains necessary setup:
>
> set meta-flag on

'meta-flag' is a synonym for 'input-meta', so you don't need both.

> set convert-meta off
> set input-meta on
> set output-meta on
>
> Later I can check with "bind -v" that all these variables are set:
>
> ...
>
> But anyway these letters do not work:
>
> $ echo -e "\xC0\xC1\xC2\xC3\xC3\xC4\xC5\xC6\xC7"
> AAAAAAA?C

Looks like the font you're using doesn't have the necessary glyphs, so
Windows substitutes the closest it can think of.

Here 's what I'm getting both with the default console font and with
"Lucida Console":

$ echo -e "\xC0\xC1\xC2\xC3\xC3\xC4\xC5\xC6\xC7"
ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ

Andy

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