Today I run Cygwin with &lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt; using the following startup line:

&lt;code&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
rxvt -bg black -sl 8192 -fg white -sr -g 150x56 -fn &quot;Fixedsys&quot; -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/code&gt;

This gives me a resizeable native Windows window which is much better than the standard &quot;DOS box&quot; the default &lt;code&gt;cygwin.bat&lt;/code&gt; provides.

However, the current configuration does have a couple of issues:

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I am not able to enter non-ASCII characters into the terminal window (i.e. &#230;, &#248;, &#229; and &#198;, &#216;, &#197;, which I use semi-frequently. In fact, the terminal will not even accept them when I paste them into the window. If I paste a string like &quot;b&#248;lle&quot; (Norwegian for &quot;bulley&quot;), all I get is &quot;blle&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I am not able to render UTF-8 character, they only show as ?, even if they are supported by the font (i.e. when rendering the same characters in ISO-8859-1 they show just fine.).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

I am running English Windows Vista with locale and keyboard layout set to Norwegian (ISO-8859-1 character set?), but I&#39;ve had the exact same issue on Windows 2000 and XP.

Anyone knows how to fix this (i.e. a better way to configure rxvt)?

Apart from the issues mentioned above, I&#39;m very happy with &lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt;, so if I find a way to resolve them I&#39;d like to continue using it. However, if the issues are not (easily) solvable, are the any other good terminal solutions for Cygwin?

&lt;strong&gt;Update&lt;/strong&gt;

The solution provided by Andy and Mattias (editing the &lt;code&gt;.inputrc&lt;/code&gt; file) did solve the input problem, but output rendering is still an issue. Output is fine when I render in ISO-8859-1, but when using UTF-8 I only get ? for non-ASCII characters. This behavior is consistent between &lt;code&gt;rxvt&lt;/code&gt;, &lt;code&gt;urxvt&lt;/code&gt; (under Cygwin XFree X Server), &lt;code&gt;mintty&lt;/code&gt; and PuttyCyg. 

Is there a similar configuration file where output encoding can be set (i.e. the equivalent of setting output locale on a Linux system)?


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