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Re: German Win98, US Win95 keyboard --> no ;'` keys in Bash
- To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker at physik dot rwth-aachen dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: German Win98, US Win95 keyboard --> no ;'` keys in Bash
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:42:10 -0400
At 01:29 PM 9/20/2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>An observation I made with Cygwin Bash from 20b1, and which still seems
>unfixed with the most recent builds (downloaded yesterday):
>
>None of these keys yields any reaction at the Bash prompt:
>' ; ' (i.e. quote, backquote and semicolon)
>
>Neither do their shifted variants. Not even if I type it twice, or
>followed by a <Space> to eliminate possible deadkey behaviour of quotes.
>Needless to say this makes this version of Bash pretty unusable for any
>interactive work.
>
>Note that even though I'm German, and my Windows 98 OS is, too, I am
>using a *US* keyboard (typing C code on a German one is just unbearable)
>with "Win95 keys". I also disabled the whole Codepage stuff in
>config.sys and autoexec.bat (no mode con codepage prepare, no
>display.sys).
>
>Any ideas what to look up next, or how to fix this?
You can check the email archives on this. I believe it was Jason
Tishler (sorry Jason if I'm remembering this wrong) that did some work
relative to the interpretation of keys in different environments. I
expect you'll find some interesting, if not helpful, information from some
of the posts surrounding this work. You should also check the FAQ and User
Guide to make sure you're not overlooking any information that might be
helpful. This is always worthwhile no matter what the problem.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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