From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: NATIONAL CHARACTERS IN b18 19 May 1997 13:21:51 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BC6449.2121BA60.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> Original-To: "noer AT cygnus DOT com" , "'tage DOT westlund AT stockholm DOT mail DOT telia DOT com'" Original-Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" Encoding: 33 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Tage Westlund wrote: > In the mailing list I read that b18 was to be released > and I was happy. Now is time to widen the experience, > to import the source, not only the binaries! > But, recently I have found that swedish, danish and > german users have complained about the national charac- > ters, typed by using the Alt Gr shift key. They simply > do not work, they say. > Do we have to wait for a soon coming b18.1 version or > for a small national characters' patch? Here is a fragment of winsup/console.cc: else /* keep it */ { if (input_rec.Event.KeyEvent.dwControlKeyState & > (LEFT_ALT_PRESSED | RIGHT_ALT_PRESSED)) { char tmp[2]; tmp[0] = tolower(input_rec.Event.KeyEvent.AsciiChar); tmp[1] = 0; buf[copied_chars++] = '\033'; undo_input(hndl, tmp); } else Modify marked line according to your needs. -- Sergey Okhapkin Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".