Bill Allombert on Sun, 23 Apr 2017 20:26:08 +0200


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Re: PARI/GP for Windows doesn't support umlauts and diacritical signs but it's possible


On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 06:54:12PM +0000, Jacques Gélinas wrote:
> The suggestion from Jens Schmidt,
> 
> 1. Create a file inputrc.txt in home directory with following contents:
>   set convert-meta off
>   set input-meta on
>   set output-meta on
> 2. Set environment variable INPUTRC to the absolute path of inputrc.txt
> 
> does work on Windows 8.1, with both GP2.4.1 and GP2.9.2.
> Also on Vista/GP2.4.1. Now I can form a string in Pari with my real name (:-).

It would be nice if someone with acces to windows 10 could try the
'ubuntu for windows' shell and compare the ubuntu GP in 'ubuntu for windows' with
the native windows GP binary.

Cheers,
Bill.