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

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


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).

Changing Locale and Character set in Mintty 1.1.2

Then test it:

Echoing accented letters in Mintty 1.1.2