Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 DocBook-based FAQ draft

[Reinhard Karcher]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Francis VIVAT wrote
> If no .inputrc, pressing � makes a beep.
> With my .inputrc, pressing � makes \351
> 
> $ more .inputrc
> set intput-meta On   # to show 8-bit characters
> set output-meta On   # to show 8-bit characters
> set convert-meta Off # to show it as character, not the octal reprentation
> 
> if convert-meta Off only, the result is the same (\351)
> 

Sorry, no idea. With my bash setting convert-meta to On or Off toggles
the display of the 8-bit character or the octal representation.

Reinhard

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