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

Question

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   #         


        

Answer 1

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

1. Go to the menu (if you don't see any menu, right click on your Terminal).
2. Click Options....
3. Click Text.
4. Change the Locale to C.
5. Change the Character set to ISO-8859-1 (Western European).

Then test it: