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RE: Problem with £ sign at Cygwin prompt.
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:27:39 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problem with £ sign at Cygwin prompt.
----Original Message----
>From: thomas.revell@powerconv.alstom.com
>Sent: 25 May 2005 16:04
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed a minor issue while typing at the bash prompt in cmd.exe. It
> seems that when I try to type a £ sign, a hash character and newline is
> entered instead. I'm aware of the issues surrounding these two characters,
> but as far as I can tell all of my language settings in Windows are
> configured for the UK.
>
> Anyone else noticed this?
Yes, me. It appears to have been mapped to some Kill-entire-command
control character. Note that this happens in bash, but not in ash (£ key
works fine) nor tcsh (key fails to produce any character at all). Since
it's bash specific, I think we probably need a readline guru to help
here....
> Just in case anyone was wondering, I only discovered this by accident. I
> was going for the $ sign and pressed the wrong key.
That's nothing, you should see the godawful mess that squirts out all over
my command line when I press the 'euro' key!
Oh, hang on, that one seems to have been fixed. I just get a '?' now,
whereas I used to get a whole load of ANSI codes with control-] and stuff in
them.
cheers,
DaveK
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