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Re: xterm losing accent keys


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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