How do I get accented letters to actually work on bash?

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My bash installation on cygwin doesn't handle accented letters properly. I tried adding ``` set input-meta on # to accept 8-bit characters set output-meta on # to show 8-bit characters set convert-meta on # to show it as character, not the octal representation ``` to my input rc, but this doesn't quite work yet. Indeed, if I type ``` $ echo ù ``` then before i press enter it is automatically changed to ``` $ echo \303 ``` although the output is right, for I get ``` $ echo \303 ù ``` I get the same result for anyother accented letter. Usually though I use a non-italian keyboard, and I use `autohotkey` to substitute letters with an apostrophe after them with an accented letter. When this is the case, accented letters get substituted with a `\302`, and they print garbage depending on the letter: prints a `3y` for a `ù`, a `¢` for an `ò`, and nothing for everething else. How do I get all this to make sense? EDIT: my locale settings, cygwin version and terminal are the following ``` $ unam…

Accepted Answer

To get accented letters on bash via `Cygwin` using `Mintty 1.1.2` just do the following:

- Go to the menu (if you don't see any menu, right click on your Terminal).

- Click Options....

- Click Text.

- Change the Locale to `C`.

- Change the Character set to `ISO-8859-1 (Western European)`.

Then test it:

How do I get accented letters to actually work on bash?

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