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Re: xterm losing accent keys
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:36:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: xterm losing accent keys
- References: <49917E49.30009@chalmers.se>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote:
When I press ` ^ Â or ~ and then space keys in xterm, it ignores the
accents and puts a simple space. The same with composition of accented
characters like Ã. What worse is: this behaviour can change back to
normal and back to improper, and I have no clue as to upon exactly what?
Seems that sometimes just a change of focus to another window (xemacs)
is sufficient, and the accent keys get deprived of function.
It's a really dangerous problem. Imagine: I'd launch rm -f *
(instead of rm -f *~) and pop would go the weasel. Anyway it's darn
annoying.
The question is: How can I force proper handling of accent keys?
Preferably a method more elegant than a reboot.
If this problem occurs for xterm and not in the shell as started by
cygwin.bat, then it's an X issue and should be directed to the
cygwin-xfree list if available xterm documentation doesn't provide
a working solution (i.e. if there is a Cygwin-specific issue with enabling
the right behavior here). If it is reproducible in the shell started
by cygwin.bat, then perhaps this FAQ will help:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode>
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