Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/08/15/17:02:28
Hi Andreas,
who do you type a backslash in a DOS box then?
Or in a Kermit95 hpterm or vt320?
Answer: Just hit the spacebar after the deadkey!
This works also for stock B20.1 (I haven't yet updated),
no need to set anything.
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Eibach [SMTP:a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 04:21
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: "Accent problem" still not fixed in current cygwin
> release
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> My name is Andreas Eibach, and today is the first time that I get your
> messages here on my mailer.
>
> Well I got very bad news for you: this accent (dead-key) problem on my
> German keyboard is still not fixed in current 1.1.x releases.
>
> For about two (!) years now, I've been using cygwin32 beta 20.1
> release
> without having updated ever within this time period.
> Well, now I adventured inside the lion's den :-), and I updated to
> 1.1.4.
>
> But this accents problem still don't seem to work.
> Whilst a Scandinavian guy gave me this GREAT hint to use bash with
> the --noediting flag (thank you!), even this doesn't work in current
> release
> _anymore_.
>
> THAT IS:
> I can't even write a primitive shell script in this thing because I
> don't
> have the inverted apostroph I need to _execute_ unix commands, eg
>
> cp -p $1 `echo $2 | sed 's/foo/bar//g'`
> ^
> Yes, it's THIS baby that doesn't want to appear on my cygwin screen!
> And I couldn't get a way to activate it so far.
>
> I appreciate any of your help.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas Eibach
>
>
>
>
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