Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/10/11:48:06
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
>>>> - Pressing something like Alt-ö on a German keyboard leaves an
>>>> illegal UTF-8 sequence (the second byte of the respective
>>>> sequence) in input, apparently because Alt-0xC3 is handled
>>>> somehow. Don't know, though, whether this is a cygwin
>>>> console issue or maybe a readline issue.
>>>>
>>> Alt is converted to a leading ESC. I don't know how to fix that for
>>> non-ASCII chars, yet.
>>>
>> For non-ASCII it works fine, thanks to Andy for clarifying; I could
>>
>
> Erm... sorry, but do we really talk about the same? If you press
> Alt-ö, the console generates the sequence ESC 0xc3 0xb6. That's not
> desired so I'm contemplating the idea to skip the keypress if the
> resulting multibyte char is > 1 byte. This restricts ESC-somekey
> either to explicit function key sequences (ESC-[-foo, etc), or
> to just two byte sequences like ESC-A, ESC-0, ESC-;, etc.
>
I had not expected you to take action on this issue so soon:
> - Don't create ESC sequences for ALT-key keypresses if key translates
> into a multibyte sequence. This avoids stray bytes in input when
> pressing for instance ALT-ö (Umlaut-o) under UTF-8.
>
- especially given:
> ... And, whatever
> super-duper change we make to this essential console code in future,
> let's wait until after 1.7.1, please.
>
Actually, I think this is the wrong change. I'm sorry I came up with
this confusion because I didn't test sufficiently, but as I said in my
second mail
> For non-ASCII it works fine,
and contemplating again
> If you press Alt-ö, the console generates the sequence ESC 0xc3 0xb6.
I think this is absolutely the right thing to generate - after all, what
else should be expected here?
The "stray bytes" are created in bash/readline, the previous behavior of
cygwin console in this case was perfect, I'd suggest to revert, please.
Thomas
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