Re: problem with paste-from-clipboard

[Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:02:53, Bosmon wrote:
> Your posting was in the thread "[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated:
> libreadline7-7.0.1-1, libreadline-devel-7.0.1-1, bash-4.4.5-1"
>
> and is linked here: 
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg151042.html

the proper link is here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00135.html

> The problem you reported, of broken interactive non-ASCII input,
> is likely unrelated but is further suggestive that the 7.x releases 
> of libreadline didn't go through the QA they should. The version 
> combination that you mention in that posting is the one I am
> now happily running with.

original issue is here:

> With cmd.exe, you can type Alt 234 and it produces
> GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA U+03A9. However with Cygwin via Cygwin.bat it
> yields nothing. Non ASCII characters can be read from scripts, but they cannot
> be entered interactively.
>
> They cannot be pasted either; pasting some words will remove all non ASCII
> characters.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00066.html

and my issue was fixed here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00257.html


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