Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/03/20/16:04:24
Hi Dmitrii,
you know that, on a german keyboard, you need
to type a space after a deadkey like ^ or ~ or ` ?
However I can only speak for NT,
I could avoid W9x/W2k so far...
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitrii Pasechnik [SMTP:dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 14:32
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Q: console app on German Win9* - '^' character, etc
>
> A console (i.e. MSDOS prompt) application is built with cygwin 1.1.8
> and works fine on English Win9*, when started from MSDOS prompt.
> However, if the system is German Win9*, one cannot input such characters
> like '^' there at all, while this is a crucial feature.
> Similar problems were reported for Win9* with some other non-English
> keyboards.
> (the application is question is called GAP, see
> http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/)
>
> Is there a known solution to this problem?
> (as expected, everything works fine on WinNT and Win2000)
>
> Would it help if it is built with -mno-cygwin option,
> and uses <conio.h>, etc., stuff?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Dmitrii Pasechnik
> e-mail: d DOT pasechnik AT twi DOT tudelft DOT nl
> http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~dima/
>
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