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How use Unicode characters in shell scripts
Authored by: Christoph on Jan 11, '06 04:53:25AM
I had the same problem with bash. As it uses the readline library the solution were the following entries in the readline configuration file $HOME/.inputrc:

set input-meta on
set output-meta on
set convert-meta off

Other useful settings are

# suppress bell ringing
set bell-style none

# case insensitive TAB-completion
set completion-ignore-case on

# enable Delete/Home/end key in xterm and iTerm 
# (does not work in Terminal.app though)
"\e[3~": delete-char 
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line


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