On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Ah. I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply an xterm, >but an xterm running bash[*] that doesn't work, and direct you to ><http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC48>.
>[*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter environment (top-level?). Your guess is right. I have followed the link and adapt to my specific need but it seems that I have missed something. Accented characters are printed as if convert-meta is set to on. As an example e (e acute) is displayed as \351. These are my home configuration files # .bashrc ? alias less='less -r' alias ls='ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars' export LANG="fr" export LC_ALL="fr_CA" export LC_CTYPE="iso-8859-1" export OUTPUT_CHARSET="iso-8859-1" export LESSCHARSET="iso8859" setxkbmap ca_enhanced # .inputrc set meta-flag on # enable 8-bit input set convert-meta off # don't strip 8-bit characters set input-meta on # enable 8-bit input set output-meta on # display 8-bit characters correctly Daniel Landry