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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 09:59:38AM +0200, Jens Schmidt wrote:
> Bill Allombert schrieb:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:39:00AM +0200, Jens Schmidt wrote:
> >> There is another related? effect with readline and colors in Windows
> >> (not only in Wine).
> >>
> >> To test this start clean PARI/GP without any preloaded defaults in a
> >> windows console:
> >>
> >>   gp -f
> >>   default(prompt, "gp >")
> >>   default(colors, brightfg)
> >>   default(readline, 0)
> >>
> >> The white prompt switches to yellow color and brightness on. Now type:
> >>
> >>   default(readline, 4)
> >>
> >> The prompt switches back to white color and brightness off. This
> >> should'nt happen.
> > 
> > This is a know issue. The default Windows terminal does not handle
> > ANSI color sequences, so we use a function win32_ansi_fputs()
> > in src/systems/mingw/mingw.c that parses the color code and sets the
> > terminal color using SetConsoleTextAttribute.
> > 
> > Unfortunately the prompt is printed directly by readline and we did
> > not find a way to have readline use win32_ansi_fputs() or set the
> > color correctly.
> > 
> > If you have a solution for this, please tell us.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Bill.
> > 
> 
> At least I found a workaround for all versions of Windows incl. Wine. No
> code changes are required. Every user can do this to make special chars
> working:
> 
> 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

Is there an easy way I could add inputrc.txt to the PARI windows installer
and have gp/readline pick it up without requiring the user to set INPUTRC
even if it means to rebuild readline ?

Cheers,
Bill