bash environment - pasting strings with "special" characters

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I'm using an application and I need to paste a string into the app... e.g ãµÜÇæ¢üäÄøqò

When I login with bash shell it's impossible to paste the string with the special characters. If I change the shell to sh it works fine.

Does someone knows what/if there are any variabels that I must set in bash to get it work in bash?

What's the output of locale? What's the output of hd after you've pasted that data in it and pressed Ctrl-D twice? What's your terminal or terminal emulator? — Stéphane Chazelas, Commented Oct 30, 2013 at 11:04
Do you have a "set convert-meta on" setting in /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc? — Stéphane Chazelas, Commented Oct 30, 2013 at 11:13
And last, do you have set input-meta on or set meta-flag on or set output-meta on in /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc? Or for short, what the output of grep -i meta /etc/inputrc ~/.inputrc? Or even better: bind -v | grep meta — Stéphane Chazelas, Commented Oct 30, 2013 at 11:16
The following links may also be helpful... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45002299/why-special-characters-added-when-to-copy-and-paste-from-leafpad-into-console https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste — Android Control, Commented Apr 15, 2019 at 10:28

Stéphane Chazelas · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-30 12:31:58Z

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Most probably, your readline configuration doesn't enable the input-meta variable or has convert-meta enabled.

Add:

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

To your ~/.inputrc.

answered Oct 30, 2013 at 12:31

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Thank's a lot, I didn't expect an answer so soon ... I added this lines into /etc/inputrc file set input-meta on set output-meta on set convert-meta off It works fine now
– Peter
Commented Oct 30, 2013 at 13:18

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