From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: bash & french keyboard in b18 under W95/NT4
25 Dec 1997 15:36:09 -0800
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Hi Fabrice,

>I got the cygnus NT port of the GNU unix tools and I am very happy with
>them. However there is one very annoying problem:
>I am using a french keyboard where I have to enter some special
>characters with the [Alt Gr] key (|, [, ], {, }, @). But in the bash
>prompt this does not work. That means that I can't even pipe two
>commands together, which makes the shell nearly useless.

Get the newest patches for cygwin.dll from Sergey's web site:

        http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/sos/

Please read and understand ;) the instruction on this site, too.

>
>Do you know any fix/workaround for this?
>
>Thanx a lot
>Fabrice

Bye.
Michael.
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