international character string works as string argument but not inparser

[Benjamin Lindner]

> Thanks for the rapid reply. Here are some examples:
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> octave:1>data_index.('Québec') = 1
> data_index =
> {
>   Québec =  1
> }
> octave:2>fieldnames(data_index)
> ans =
> 
> {
>   [1,1] = Québec
> }
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> So the accented character is preserved. Everything seems to work. It only gives trouble when 
> going through the commandline directly. 
> 

Hmm, I have encountered the same problem with german umlauts. It is not 
possible to enter them via the command line, but when read from a .m 
file they are perfectly acceptable.

A wild guess, is it a problem of the readline library?

benjamin