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diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml index ab792a5df..d8fbcf382 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-using.xml @@ -364,31 +364,6 @@ section <ulink url="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html">Internati <para> Cygwin uses UTF-8 by default. To use a different character set, you need to set the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or LANG environment variables.</para> - -<para>To type international characters (£äö) in -<literal>bash</literal>, check if the following settings are available in -your <literal>bash</literal>, and if not, add them to your -<literal>~/.inputrc</literal> file and restart <literal>bash</literal>: -</para> -<screen> - set meta-flag on - set convert-meta off - set output-meta on - set input-meta on -</screen> - -<para>These are options to the <literal>readline</literal> library, which -you can read about in the <literal>bash(1)</literal> and -<literal>readline(3)</literal> man pages. Other tools that do not use -<literal>readline</literal> for display, such as <literal>less</literal> -and <literal>ls</literal>, might require additional settings for doublebyte -or multibyte charsets, which could be put -in your <literal>~/.bashrc</literal>, for instance: -<screen> -alias less='/bin/less -r' -alias ls='/bin/ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars' -</screen> -</para> </answer></qandaentry> <qandaentry id="faq.using.weirdchars"> |