Special and diacritic charactres using less, cat and other linux tools

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I am using GNU bash, Version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) and set up my .inputrc to allow for special characters and German umlauts etc.: 

set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

On the command line, this works fine. However, using tools like "cat" or "less", the special characters are not shown. Using cat, I get greyish placeholdrs; for "less" I get escape sequences (e.g., for a German umlaut).

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Many thanks in advance,

Oli

Oliver

Posted 2013-11-25T12:22:06.413

Reputation: 71

1What does env | grep -i TERM shows ? – user2987828 – 2013-11-25T13:09:54.103

Could you give us an example file so we can test it? Does less -R work better? – terdon – 2013-11-25T23:06:17.743

give us output of: stty -a – user2987828 – 2013-11-27T10:59:41.493

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