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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:47:46 +0100 (MET)
From: Dmitrii Pasechnik <dima AT cs DOT uu DOT nl>
To: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: console app on German Win9* - '^' character, etc 
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Heribert Dahms wrote:

>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...
>
I am told it can also 
be simply AltGr+^ combination, that is used by people who
have to type '^' often.

I'm afraid it might be due to an incorrect interaction between the
keyboard driver and Cygwin console in this case, that simply ignores some
of the keys (this is an impression I got from looking at the Cygwin
source).

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