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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Andreas Eibach'" <a DOT eibach AT gmx DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: "Accent problem" still not fixed in current cygwin release
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:58:22 +0200
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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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